[ SHOWGSD-L ] what really matters...

  • From: Diane Wright <Diwri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ShowGSD-L <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:58:01 -0400

A friend sent me this in response to losing Orrie... I thought it was perfect 
to share.


Their marriage was good, their dreams focused.  Their best friends lived barely 
a wave away.   I can 
see them now, Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress, 
lawn mower in one hand, 
and dish-towel in the other.   It was the time for fixing things.   A curtain 
rod, the kitchen radio, 
screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress.   Things we keep.

It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy.  All that re-fixing, 
eating, renewing, I wanted 
just once to be wasteful.   Waste meant affluence. Throwing things away meant 
you knew there'd always 
be more.

But then my mother died, and on that clear summer's night, in the warmth of the 
hospital room, I was 
struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't any more.

Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away... never to 
return.   So... while 
we have it...  it's best we love it....  and care for it...  and fix it when 
it's broken....  and 
heal it when it's sick.

This is true....  for marriage.....   and children with bad report cards.....  
and dogs with bad 
hips....  and aging parents.....  and grandparents.    We keep them because 
they are worth it, 
because we are worth it.   Some things we keep.   Like a best friend that moved 
away or a classmate 
we grew up with.

There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who 
are special.....  and 
so, we keep them close!

I received this from someone who thinks I am a  'keeper',  so I've sent it to 
the people I think of 
in the same way..   Now it's your turn to send this to those people that are  
"keepers"  in your life.

Good friends are like stars....   You don't always see them, but you know they 
are always there.

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