Sunshine go away today, I don't feel much like.....

I don't feel much like dancing........

One of my youngest sisters always said this segment of "our family always continues to put the word FUN in DysFUNctional", it still makes me laugh, we are so damn naughty sometimes it's enough to make ya cry.

My closest sister perpetually talks about moving on.....some many do not understand her, they think she means vast changes.....she only means to imply to get past a thing, to move on from yesterday if it was a bad weathered day, and to face today with a smile and a fresh start.....to move on into tomorrow....with an open mind, a fresh day of sunshine and light to be explored through. She is right and life could be this simple if hearts were opened to it.

Grandma Kate Walsh is remembered by many in the family for many deeds........
my very limited relationship with her consisted of a couple of visits to her and Chauncy, and I saw them as two sweethearts aging, yet residing with their own dignities still at that point, they were in their own home he had built for them light years before.
He would pretend to be deaf and not hear her words.....and when she walked away he would wink at us, and let us know he'd heard every word she spoke at him, a wink and a smile from Chauncy.
She would run to her freezer's and try to get out her many homemade goodies to try to gain a meal for her visitors.
It was all good to me and my mindseye, my visits to them with my rather new husband at the time. They were his family, and I'd only had my own Grandpa for a GrandParent, and had always missed the Grandma theory.

GrandMa's gift to me on one of these visits would last decades, it would become incorporated in my living styles: "Never go to bed angry at eachother", "Always say goodnight-and start over fresh in the morning". " A day will come when you won't have the chance".

I have tried hard to live this theory with my own lovies. It has not always been a perfectly easy thing to do, you must remember her underlying wisdom, you must come to know it has a reality to it.

It was truly a beautiful gift from a family woman I met in passing with my then young husband, as he tried to have his family come to know me.

Funny I still love to travel anywhere with him. He is a keeper.

So: the moral of these stories are, no matter what always say good night, at least maybe in your prayers, for we do not know what tomorrow will bring us. And start each day as fresh as you can.....today is all we have, and there is no guarantee on the whole day.