Surprise!
How-thoughtful! Thank-you! That picture sure-enough brought back pleasant-memories.
We received our-mail this-morning about 45-minutes later than-usual; how can the daily-post be of such-importance as to “know” the time-of-arrival within 5-minutes either side of 10:30 a.m.? Hmm!? Such practiced-nuanced idiosyncrasy might conclude more about-me than intended!? I would describe my perfectly Great-life as: Blessed! Adventurous! Satiated! Cool!
Maybe, as they-say, “The devil is in the-details!”? Anyway, the-mail held a delightful-surprise! Among the myriad political-ads and commerce-invitations was a “Personal”-note card.
Eyeing the return-address, I viewed a name from the-past: Mr. Norman Schmidt! Surprise!
Norman is a cousin on my dad’s-side of the-family; his Grandpa-Martin and Norman’s Grandma were brother and sister. When I was a kid living on Washington Street in Columbia, Norman was our mail-man; he came each day about 2:30 p.m.; on hot summer-days I greeted him at the front-door with a glass of ice-water. It made me feel-useful and Norman sure seemed to enjoy the cooling-offering.
When I-opened his letter, today, I found a note saying he thought I-might enjoy the-enclosure. I surely-do! It is a 5”X7” black and white photo of my great-Grandparents, Martin and Catherine, on their 60th Wedding-Anniversary celebration in 1953 at their farmhouse north of Waterloo. Wow! I treasure those-days and the-emotions the precious-memories evoke.
Lady-Candy does genealogy-research and the-photo will go into her-archive treasure-trove.
I was a tender 6 year-old on that day; I
still remember the-occasion! Thank-you! Norman!
Often, of-late, I find myself writing
about the “Saints & Angels”
among-us; they are-myriad!
So---today’s-mail was…a
delightful-surprise! Thanks for making my Fabulous!-day…Better!
Thanks-for-the-memories!
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