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Friday, August 22, 2003
More evidence of why I love strong women 
| | Last summer we celebrated my Aunt Grace's 90th birthday at her place in Marlboro, New Jersey (several acres of paradise surrounding a home that began as a mill built in 1726 or something). One day while we were there I took Mom around to see some of the places we used to hang out when we spent summers at The Shore, more than four decades ago. |
| | We visited the ruins of Asbury Park, the Point Pleasant Boardwalk, our old beach at Mantoloking, and my father's favorite fishing spot, Manasquan Inlet, which is the North border of Point Pleasant. While we sat on a bench there, I took the picture above. And tonight I just noticed the fine print on the next bench down: "Lived Life Pleasantly." A good caption. |
| | So it's occurred to me that over the last few days my mother's spirit has taken over my blog. It's the kind of thing that tended to happen when she was around. |
| | It's fine with me. I've got other stuff to do, like fly to North Carolina today to attend services there this weekend. I'm doing her eulogy on Sunday. |
| | Since we needed a good picture for Mom's obituary, I went ahead and put together another gallery, covering 1974 to 2003 — her years in North Carolina. The best of the bunch I turned into black & whites, with links from their pages in the gallery. (I think this is the best one.) |
| | It's so much more fun doing this than moping around. Here's a series of Mom playing noodle-squirt in a pool. And here are a pair of pix atop the World Trade Center on the clearest day I've ever seen in New York. |
| | Mom is in all but a few of the shots. The exceptions are ones with my paternal grandmother (shown here with my two older kids), who was 99 when these pictures were taken. She lived to 107. |
| | By the way, huge and heartfelt thanks to all the good folks who have offered their sympathies. And, at the suggestion of some of you who have said they'd like to send something (and there's no obligation on any of you), Mom told us she wanted donations sent to the Graham Presbyterian Church, 216 W. Harden Street, Graham, NC 27253. |
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