The caption on this wonderful photo reads: "Jennifer likes this, she says Keep It! :-) Early 20s I was." Jennifer is Jennifer Baumgartner, her youngest daughter's youngest daughter. I love that Grandma used a smiley emoticon, long before there were emoticons...
Anyway, don't these two look ready to take on the world? Grandma Sarah lost Romey (Roman, a.k.a. "Pop" to us grandkids) back in 1968. He was just 59 years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 9 and his death was my first brush with mortality...it was shocking. He was a wonderful Grandpa.
Grandma gave me a large portfolio filled with poems and commentary. The inscription at the beginning says "This book holds many little goodies that helped make my days and life worth living."
The first poem copied out by hand reads:
Prayer for Today
Lord give me strength just for today.
To do the tasks that come my way.
To say the words,
To think the thoughts
With which real strength of soul is wrought.
Lord give me courage to resist
The urge to worry or persist
In borrowing from future years,
Troubles unknown or futile tears.
Just for today, Lord, let me find
True strength and faith
And peace of mind
And I will for tomorrow pray,
when it becomes new today.
Amen!
-- Author unknown
Kindness is a language which even the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
-- Mark Twain
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