Your Heart's Kindness

"Everywhere you go, leave a glitter trail
of your heart's kindness behind you.
Someone who needs it
may just pick it up."

Devotion Like Shore to Ocean

image via L. Jackson @ http://indulgeyourshelf.blogspot.com

“The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.” 
― Robert Frost

Celebrating With Helen

When I called my mom's best friend Helen on monday to wish her a Happy Birthday it was pouring down rain. If she had said she had no plans that day I would have driven through the downpour to be with her. She said she was going to be celebrating with her daughter and family that night. We then planned when we could be together and she said she doesn't really like to go out much anymore but that she would love to spend time with me. So we planned on today, Wed. to meet. I said I'd love to bring her lunch and just sit and be with her. (She loves to do jigsaw puzzles, like me!) I spent the most fantastic day with Helen, reminiscing, talking about her life,my mom and dad, her husband, how she still misses her mom after all these years who lived to be around 96. Helen's sister lived to be 100. I brought over sushi and teriyaki chicken, dessert, chocolate truffles, and flowers and she made tea for me. We laughed and joked around as I marvelled how clear she is. She remembers more than most young people and she is so spry and joyous and lively. I brought my ipad so we could listen to her favorite singers on Pandora. Every time Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra would come on she'd say, "I love that song!" We spent a long time on her new jigsaw puzzle. She said "Someone gave me two new jigsaw puzzles and now I feel a lot of pressure to finish them. " That really made me laugh. I said, "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll have lots of time to get these done. " She turned 98 this past Monday, March 2nd. Totally inspiring and amazing Helen. I love her so much!

Happy 98th Birthday Helen! You are a true gift and a blessing in all of our lives.  


"I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!
 

Always A Learning Experience

Live Long and Prosper

  "My folks came to the U.S. as immigrants. They were aliens, and then became citizens. I was born in Boston a citizen, and then I went to Hollywood and became an alien."-Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015) RIP

Happy 98th Birthday Helen

Celebrating wonderful Helen over the years. 
 Some memories:

Saturday August 10, 2013  What do you do when your late mother's  best friend says she'd like to spend some time with you and that the time should be sooner than later? That question was posed to my sister and me by my mother's most delightful and clear minded best friend Helen this week. We did spend this precious day with Helen.  What a treasure she is in my life. 

  When I asked her what if felt like to be 95 she laughed and nudged me and said, "I'm 96!" She's as spry and funny and sweet as ever. I was the one walking with the cane and she said to me as she held the car door open, "Here let me help you Barbara!" OMG she did help me. We spent a great day together reminiscing and laughing. She said, I just love to hear you girls laugh. Helen has known us all our lives. My mom and dad were best friends with Helen and her husband Tad. We took family vacations together, and grew up with her children attending church together and spending many a Friday and Saturday nights at their homes for family meals and parties. Today we relaxed and finished a jig saw puzzle with Helen (she always has a jigsaw puzzle in progress that she is working on) and we sat with her and watched her favorite Korean soap opera. Dinner was her favorite take out sandwiches from Philippe's French dip from downtown L.A.  

A New Month

"March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away."
-  Thalassa Cruso