Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Where did my upper lip go?

I just came from the bathroom, glanced at myself in the mirror, and was horrified!.......Who is that person looking back at me? She doesn't look like how she is supposed to look! I know she is nearly seventy, but, she still feels like forty...well, maybe fifty, but, my God!, not seventy! Why am I even examining myself?

Maybe it is because I just talked to my friend, bill, on the phone. He was one of my 'old honker's' (one of his terms) in the '80's . He is a wonderful person. I love him still, but I was CRAZY FOR HIM back in the day...... another story. He has had numerous hardships with his health in the past few years, but, he is stubborn, strong, and determined. Has endured way more than most of us. He has been at deaths door several times recently, but I heard more optimism tonite than I have in a long time. I visited him a couple of years ago, and we had a great three or four days together. One of his daughters lives next to him & is an earth angel for him. She & his grandson Tanner are with him daily. He went to the top with the FAA, & retired with travel plans & all the dreams that come with retirement, only to lose his good health within the first six months. He is, and has always been grounded in his roots, and planted On The Highest Hill In Ray County, Missouri,thank you. I think he has a few hundred acres of that good Missouri land. He is a good man. I should have gone across the wide Missouri instead of the Pacific Ocean. Coulda, woulda, shoulda, if.

"I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and democrats, and frothy elequence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri, you have got to show me .

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