about the slide shows

Now that Lianna, my grandaughter, is in school I thought about my school days back when.

I remember that at the start of fourth grade I was looking forward to seeing my old friends again. But when I got to school I found that most of my friends from last year would not talk to me or want me around. I was confused, what did I do?

Then I saw that all the brown kids were at one end of the school yard and the pale kids at the other end. I learned about "us and them". Discrimnation. No one had told me that after the third grade we were suppose to play apart from each other. No, it was not a hard fast rule. It just was. I have never forgotten that. As the years passed and I went to Jr. Hi. things were a little different and in high school we started to break down the walls on that kind of stuff.

Now, thinking of those day I made a little slide show called school day. I would like to know what you think of it. I hope it carries a message.

The other slide show, child of God, uses most of the same pictures and a few other but I like the message better. Again, what do you think?

To my sister Grace, who just read my blog for the first time the other day, Hi Grace!

Long Ago

I remember when I was a kid. I remember a plaza across from a hospital and between the farmer's market. My dad would load the family in his car and hook up a little trailer and load a little pump organ on it. He had an amplifier tht he would attach to the car battery and he would put big speakers on high tripods.

Once set up, one of my sisters would play the organ and the rest of the family would sing till a crowd would gather. Then my dad would preach and try to convert souls. Everyone in the family had to sing. I guess we were a musical family. Even our sewing machine was a Singer.

I remember also sitting in the car while the rest of the family went into the jail where they would sing and then my father would preach. One of my sister fainted once while in the jail. She said the heat and smell got to her and I don't know if she had to go again. I was to young to go into the jail, which is why I waited in the car.

It seems as if it was all a dream but now and then when the family gets together our converstation retreats to those days, when life was simpler and a soda pop and chips could be had for a dime. When our street were not paved but were made of clay, if you were lucky, or just dirt that would cause your car to bog down when it rained. There it stayed till the ground dried or your friends came and help pull you out.

Somehow I don't believe it was the place that was "somewhere over the rainbow"

another week in my life

So Lianna has been in school a little over a week now. She still loves it and comes home and tells me alot about her day.

A real surprise to me was that she has made friends with a little girl that can neither hear or speak. So Lianna comes home and teaches me the new signs she has learned! Wow! learnling signing! Don't know if her whole class is doing that or if she is doing it because she likes her new friend. I know how to sign "line up" and "follow me" and how to say "love you" and how to throw a kiss in sign. Lianna calls this kid her best friend! So lets hope Lianna and Gabby can learn from each other.

Well soon I should know how my retest on my PSA test went. i know my blood pressure has gone up over the last year and the doctor got tired of my not being able to get it down with what we have been trying so she has added a new pill for me to take. Told me not to drive or do other dangerest stuff till I learn how the meds will effect me. I may have cramps in my legs, or get dizzy and or sleepy.

Have to say this, It is almost the date that Sandra passed. Today is the 10th. Sandra passed on the 11th even if "official" it was the 12th. She passed at 11:30 PM but they didn't declare time of death till 0:45 AM. I can't believe I have made it to this point.

Now most times I smile when I think of Sandra. I remember good times more then sad times. I am happy for her, I know she knows about how Lianna is doing and even about Sophie. Glad they live with me. When everyone is gone from the house it sure feels empty.

Now if "Ike" will leave us alone I shall be very happy. I am worried about that hurricane. Looks like we might get it bad this time.