MY ROOTS.....

OK.....SO I COULD NOT SLEEP LAST NIGHT.....WHY?   I FINALLY GOT UP AT THREE AM AND TURNED ON MY FACE BOOK.....AND THERE WAS A PICTURE OF MY MOTHER AND HER FAMILY.....MANY YEARS AGO.....WHY?......THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHOSE BLOOD RUNS THROUGH MY VEINS.....WHOSE NAMES I KNOW AND THE PEOPLE I LOVED AS I GREW UP!!!!! MOTHER...HER PARENTS AND THE UNCLES ALL LIVED WITHIN A FEW MILES OF WHERE I LIVED...AUNT EDITH....NOT SO MUCH...NEVER REALLY KNEW HER.......AND THAT IS OK, WHEN HAZEL WAS GROWING UP....SHE AND HER FOUR BROTHERS HAD A BAND....MOM PLAYED THE PIANO......WALTER THE BANJO.....RUSSEL THE SAXAPHONE AND CLARINET....LESTER THE TRUMPET AND GLEN THE TROMBONE....REAL MUSIC!  JIM AND LILLIE WERE MY UP THE STREET GRANDPARENTS......WHERE YOU RAN WHEN YOU RAN AWAY FROM HOME..WHO PULLED YOUR TEETH AND IT DIDN'T HURT....WHO ALWAYS HAD FRESH HOME MADE BREAD....WITH BUTTER AND HONEY.......THOSE WHO  HAD GRANDPARENTS UP THE STREET....GROW UP BETTER READY TO FACE THIS WORLD!....GRANDPARENTS WERE PUT THERE FOR A REASON..........USE THEM.!