Saturday, July 6, 2013

The picture tonight is adear sweet memory...


Having grown up during the 1950’s and sixties, here’s a nostalgic picture for you. And many thanks to my old neighbor and a first friend, since we met at the tender age of one and a half and shared many happy, tumultuous, loving and interesting years together She’s the young one in the middle with braids, Mary, our mutual friend and also neighbor is the one with short hair, Esther, and the one closest to the smiling lovely lady is me, and that’s my Mom in all her well dressed circa glory! Here’s the proof of my long ago tale of delivering those Civil Defense pamphlets during the Cold War years. That’s my doll carriage with it filled to the brim with them. The PIC looks as if it must have been posed for a publicity shot; it could have been...Mary never said. Amazingly my hair turned blonde around the age of fifteen. I’m on the first step, since even then I was still a peanut, since Mary is only six weeks older than me and is standing on the ground; Esther is a year and half older and much taller.
I was the one that told people to take the brochure and that I wouldn’t bite them if they did; for some strange reason that made the headline for the newspaper when it did go in the Bergen Evening Record, now called just The Record. My Mom was in charge of the local group for Civil Defense and we even had a bomb shelter too in our basement, and that too made the paper back then, how naive we all were in those days. Like any of that would actually help, we truly all believed so and so we did it to be safe.


It was so nice for Mary to post it on my Timeline, but when she did, although I love it I was concerned since my privacy setting was set so no one could do any posting. She said that she couldn’t do it but her granddaughter could, and was the one brilliantly responsible to circumvent the system!
Reminds me of my sons, they would also know how to do that! Kids are so amazing, thankfully.

Moving on…


This horrific example of a absolutely dreadful accident caused by a drunk drive going seventy miles an hour on July Fourth in Vermont where miraculously somehow the passengers survived with minor injuries due to wearing their seatbelts and having deployed air-bags working, thank heavens! Mary’s brother Joe, his son and his son’s love were in that car.  In Joe’s own words:  “My son and his love barely escaped death tonight when they were hit at an estimated 70 miles an hour by a drunk driver and his drunk friend who have been arrested. Their car was thrown 150' and stopped 2.5 inches short of a massive oak. It was a honda civic and is completely demolished. But They were both wearing seat belts and were somewhat protected by air bags and short of concussions, bruises, and some swelling and disorientation and spotty memory, thanks to great EMT'S AND STAFF AT THE HOSPITAL, and a slew of VT bikers who wouldnt leave their side till we got there, they will be Ok in a few weeks... Wear your seat belts, watch out for the other guy and if your celebrating the 4th tonight and your friends are drinking... DO NOT LET THEM DRIVE A CAR.” I hope that he doesn’t mind that I posted this.

Two reasons I posted this, one, to tell you all to think twice before you get behind a wheel of car when you have drunk liquor, I think this is a valuable life lesson for everyone. Locally we had a similar incident where a family of five were not quite so lucky, parents in their twenties with two little girls now in serious condition, while the mom, who was eight months pregnant, had to have emergency delivery, she the baby and the firefighter father are all in critical condition all due to be hit by another drunk drive who died from his stupidity, right here in Florida also on the Fourth of July!

Second reason is to remind all of us how fast things can change, Mary posted that lovely picture and then her brother, Joe, posted his not too much later…Joe also was a friend since he is about a year younger than us, and so when friends cry we cry with them…!

On those notes of Geez, life’s good and very bad times… allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and kindly count those blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!


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