Last night we went to see a delightful fireworks show. It was a real humdinger, I tell ya! Out of the blue, in the middle of the show, I was struck by the strongest feeling that my Grandpa Norris was there. I could feel him all around me. I kept thinking how this was just the thing he would have really loved. The music was loud, and I was singing along, just like he would have. He used to "deedle-deedle-dee" and hum along to things that had no words and he would bounce me on his knee like a grandpa does. He was so sweet and affectionate. Oh, how I loved him!
I found myself crying in the middle of the fireworks, big tears rolling down my cheeks, I missed him so much. It was so emotional!
Grandpa was made of joy and love and all good things. He knew how to take every moment, even the ones filled with sorrow, and find the good. He taught me how to be happy in spite of the bad things that come along, to find humor in the pain, and I'll be forever grateful to him for that.
I love you, grandpa, and I miss you every day! Thank you for the joy you've given me.
This song reminds me of grandpa:
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
- Washington Irving
- Washington Irving
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Larry King: What, though, Gordon, do you say to parishioners who say what do I do with my anger?
Gordon B.
The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller
Ask not for victory, ask for courage. For if you can endure you bring honor to us all, even more you bring honor to yourself.
- -- From the Decathlete
- -- From the Decathlete
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
- -- Helen Keller
- -- Helen Keller
Anger is a prelude to courage.
- Eric Hoffer
- Eric Hoffer
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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