To the left is a picture of my Grandma Margaret and her brother Robert in the late 1930's. My dad is named after her brother. Even in this picture I can see the love she has for people.
“I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now (Loren, Sophia)." http://thinkexist.com/quotations/past/2.html
If I had a time machine to go back in time I would not want to meet someone famous. I honestly don't see the point. Why would you want to meet someone who really doesn't understand why you want to know who they are? If I was given the opportunity to meet someone in the past I would want to meet my paternal grandma in 1940 to meet her as a teenager. She was born in 1922 and died in 1960 when my dad was eight, so he never really got to know her and I will never know her.
I want to know what she was like. I want to know what her dreams were. Not just for herself but also her six children and her grandchildren. I would want to know what kind of person she was. My dad described her as a 5'11'' blonde hair, blue eyed woman who was just as beautiful and elegant as Marilyn Monroe. Only she had real blonde hair. I want to know what her parents were like. Who I remind her of? I just want to know someone who I don't get to know in my lifetime.
She must have been a wonderful woman who made this world a beautiful and happier place. She was a kind gentle woman. She was a proud Catholic who just maybe wanted to live a little while longer. I don’t know about you but to know that you’ll never know someone who people still talk about today. My mom tells me stories about her even though she didn’t meet her or even know her. The way my mom talks about her is with such admiration and respect. She tells me I have a lot of her traits.
If I got to talk to her I would want to know what she would want to do 50 years from now. I would want to know her before her life really did start. She was married at the age of about 22. She had four children and was widowed before the age of 30. Then married again had two more children, one who died at the age of two, then to die before the age of 40. She had asthma in the winter which was a factor that lead to her death. She died in November in Iowa which is a freezing, cold state so that didn’t help when she was ill.
My dad’s memories of her are her reading him the bible she bought when she was pregnant with him. He says the only thing that kept her going was her faith. She would read him passages and sometimes when she was too sick she would make him or his siblings read it. Today I still have that bible and when I touch it and the handkerchief that still holds the place I feel like I can connect with her. That somehow it makes it possible to time travel back in time to someone who made such an impact on people’s lives.
Even though I know time travel is impossible now, I hope one day I get to meet her. Whether it’s in the past or in another world it would be such a blessing to meet her. I hope when I met her that she would be proud of me to call me her granddaughter.
If I had a time machine to go back in time I would not want to meet someone famous. I honestly don't see the point. Why would you want to meet someone who really doesn't understand why you want to know who they are? If I was given the opportunity to meet someone in the past I would want to meet my paternal grandma in 1940 to meet her as a teenager. She was born in 1922 and died in 1960 when my dad was eight, so he never really got to know her and I will never know her.
I want to know what she was like. I want to know what her dreams were. Not just for herself but also her six children and her grandchildren. I would want to know what kind of person she was. My dad described her as a 5'11'' blonde hair, blue eyed woman who was just as beautiful and elegant as Marilyn Monroe. Only she had real blonde hair. I want to know what her parents were like. Who I remind her of? I just want to know someone who I don't get to know in my lifetime.
She must have been a wonderful woman who made this world a beautiful and happier place. She was a kind gentle woman. She was a proud Catholic who just maybe wanted to live a little while longer. I don’t know about you but to know that you’ll never know someone who people still talk about today. My mom tells me stories about her even though she didn’t meet her or even know her. The way my mom talks about her is with such admiration and respect. She tells me I have a lot of her traits.
If I got to talk to her I would want to know what she would want to do 50 years from now. I would want to know her before her life really did start. She was married at the age of about 22. She had four children and was widowed before the age of 30. Then married again had two more children, one who died at the age of two, then to die before the age of 40. She had asthma in the winter which was a factor that lead to her death. She died in November in Iowa which is a freezing, cold state so that didn’t help when she was ill.
My dad’s memories of her are her reading him the bible she bought when she was pregnant with him. He says the only thing that kept her going was her faith. She would read him passages and sometimes when she was too sick she would make him or his siblings read it. Today I still have that bible and when I touch it and the handkerchief that still holds the place I feel like I can connect with her. That somehow it makes it possible to time travel back in time to someone who made such an impact on people’s lives.
Even though I know time travel is impossible now, I hope one day I get to meet her. Whether it’s in the past or in another world it would be such a blessing to meet her. I hope when I met her that she would be proud of me to call me her granddaughter.
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