[SeptemberMorn]

To all my "Keepers"

I grew up in the forties and fifties with a practical parent, my mother, God love her, who ironed Christmas wrapping paper and reused it and who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original recycle queen, before they had a name for it.

It was the time for fixing things...a curtain rod, the kitchen radio, the screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress. Things we keep.

It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy. All that re-fixing, reheating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste meant Affluence. Throwing things away meant you knew there'd always be more.

But then my mother died, and I sat in my kitchen that Sunday afternoon reading her old handmade cookbook in a binder. I was struck with the pain of feeling all alone, learning that sometimes there isn't any more.

Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away...never to return. So...while we have it ... it's best we love it.....and care for it..... and fix it when it's broken.....and heal it when it's sick. This is true.....for marriage..... and old cars..... and children with bad report cards.....and dogs with bad hips..... and aging parents ... and grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it; because we are worth it.

Some things we keep. Like a best friend that moved away. or a classmate we grew up with. There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who are special..... and so, we keep them close!




<font color=blue>"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" --Shakespeare</font color=blue>

[heatherm]

(((((((((((Tomi Susan))))))))))))

I love this....thank you for sharing.


Heather

[Fuzzybear]

I like this a lot, thanks for posting it!
(((((((((((((((Tomi)))))))))))))))
(((((((((((((((Susan)))))))))))))

[darkeyes]

I love this post. . .so very true, many of us can relate to
Thanks

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SOLON

[krzyk101]

((((((hugs)))))) I really liked that. It made me think. I grew up in the 70's and 80's though not in the age group, I can so relate. My grandmother's Christmas get togethers, rewashing the plastic silverware, and solo plastic cups.

I miss my grandparents so. Now it is me keeping the used foil, and reusing the ziplock bags.

I really can relate.

Take Care,
Kris

I wish hope for us all

If you think you have totally gave up, you haven't, because you are here!

[SeptemberMorn]

LOL I catch myself occasionally saving a piece of foil that didn't get too dirty and just recently I washed some plastic glasses that should have been thrown away. One of them leaked milk all down my front! HAHAHA





<font color=blue>"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" --Shakespeare</font color=blue>