Golden Hands, Golden People, Golden Memories

This article  states that we should always say I love you to our family and friends as often as we can. We never know when something happens suddenly and we will feel remorse, that we let a day go by and never did this. My dad passed suddenly away fifty-two years ago and left me a fifty year old daughter who was expecting his fourth grandchild, I was happy that I had seen him a day or so before and I informed him I was having a second child. In those days, we did not know the sex of the child until the child was born.

I told him I loved him when I left him in the hospital the day before and I did say I love you as I left and waved to him. He was so happy and he smiled his sweet smile contemplating being a grandfather for the fourth time. He had an operation the next day and I tried to get there before the operation. I left my daughter with a neighbor and I raced to the hospital and I could not find a parking space in the crowded lot. Finally, I took my shoes off and ran across the hospital park.

So he never came back and I was late and a few hours later, he passed on. The nasty doctor

 came out and told us of his death. He said “there is good news, he had no cancer, the bad news is he passed away.” What a weird, mean and lacking of compassionate person would say that to me who was pregnant and my mom. My brother had just walked to get us coffee or else, he would have probably punched the mean doctor for telling this news in such a manner.

My son was born 6 months later and he is named for this fine gentleman, who was a gentle man and also a real gentleman. Oh how he would have loved this child. So always try to say I love you to your family and friends as many times as it is possible.

Age is just a number and life is short and enjoy everything available to you to do now as a senior and forget the number of your now age. You are capable, competent, caring, compassionate and considerate. You can start new adventures, you have golden hands and they can mold your thoughts into your golden mind which is still active and working.

I never got a chance to say goodbye to my dear friend Virginia. She passed on four years ago and we talked often on the phone, but we never saw each other in many years. She always wrote on her cards to me ‘hugs and love‘. I wrote the same to her. I did not know she was in the hospital and then hospice. I hope she thought of me then as I would have raced to see her if I had been informed of her condition. I think of her often now thinking if something nice happens to me, she would have said hugs and love and sometimes she added the word peace.

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