Thoughts.......

"There are only two ways to live your life.....One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though every thing is." I was saddened to read today two dear friends have passed away. Gerry Rich was in our Guard Group and Barbara Johnson was a fun friend to party with. Makes you stop and think. As I look at this picture taken this summer with my youngest grandchild out boating with his family, I cherish those moments we have shared and would hope for many more, but life at my age is quite uncertain. I don't feel older everyday, but my family would probably consent they see me getting older......so what, old is good! Too many people don't get the opportunity to grow old........ Read on.

"A Warning" by Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple, with a red hot which doesn't go and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, and satin sandals and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired, and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells. And run my stick along public railings and make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain, and pick flowers in other people's gardens and learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat, and eat three pounds of sausages at a go. Or ,only bread and pickles for a week, and hoard pens and pencils and beer mats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry, and pay our rent and not swear in the street. And set a good example for the children, We will have friends to dinner and read the papers. But, maybe I ought to practice a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised when suddenly I am old and start to wear purple!

I am not laughing, but I always think twice before I buy something purple, my grandma Goff liked purple, and I remember she was old.