Well I've had the most amazing surprise visit from my Uncle Len and my cousin David. Uncle Len is 87-and he's lucid, and sane, and funny, and healthy, and he has all his own teeth! He's spry, and doesn't eat meat-and he eats lots of fresh fruit and veges and told me all about the benefits of omega 3s.
He was a chemist before he retired. 87-and on a whim they got in the car and drove 3 days here, spent a night and a day and got in the car and drove back!
I just listened to his stories and his jokes, and thoroughly enjoyed him, both of them! My cousin David is charming and funny and I just had the best time with them. I dropped everything else and just enjoyed them being here.
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87 and so healthy. I'm so glad. Did you ask him about the ice? :)
Seriously, good for you and glad you let everything wait. I'm not certain which is my favorite very old people or 3 year olds. I think most of the time it is the elderly, the seniors the wise ones. I'm forgetting what is politically correct. The OTG's, that's what I would like to be refered to when it comes my time.
Yep-he said to me, just as they were leaving..."I'm 87 you know. And I've come to realize one thing. It's only money."
OTG? over the green? on the green? old testy and green?
So, 'if it's only money,' how are you accepting this message? Obviously there's more to just jumping in a car on a whim. Whims and impulses are generally how I receive the most important instructions for my life.
Yes, what is OTG? And Joy, what did he mean when he said it's only money. What was the energetic behind it.
Well my Uncle Len has been notoriously stingy his entire life. Penny pinching. Less than extravagant shall we say.
For him to look at me and say this, was huge! It means that he has gotten that message that it's only money. Having been raised by a single mother during the depression era-money was everything, you know? And raising 4 children, money was the most important thing.
It was security, it was the future, it was love, it was so all important. He's 87 and gets it-it's just money.
There's more of course. When my aunt needed to go into this home, money wasn't what took care of things-money in the end, wasn't the end all security for their future that he had thought, believed his whole life, it would be. In the end, money was just money, and it didn't do a thing for her. Funny isn't it? He got it though!
Why did he come? Oh-he was in Laramie in the Army, and he likes to drive. i'm not as far as CA, and I'm a safe haven.
I think he wants all of us to hear it. And they talked about my Dad alot. There aren't many people they can talk about him to.
And it was a treat to sit and listen to him. I just thought it was delightful. And timely. Who knows, he could go home and pass quietly in his sleep!
My father went across country on a whim, back to Ohio, a few months before he died. August, in fact, and he died in Nov.
Funny-my cousin and her husband were under construction and when my Dad wanted to visit them there, they told him no. They hadn't wanted him to see the mess they were in-they told him to come next year. Honest to God, I kid you not.
THe following year of course, never came.
Perhaps the irony of Coyote-what's important? The fact that we are in the midst of construction-so not important to me! The fact that they took the time and made the effort to come to see us-meant so much!
Course-I am fifty, and not thirty. But, I think I would have reacted the same twenty years ago too...although I would have felt uncomfortable about the mess then, and letting people see the mess...well we all know that being in a mess was my theme this summers' Peru trip so maybe this was Coyote saying "are you really done?"
Yes I guess I am! :) Nice!
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