Not much with numbers--ages change annually and weight changes daily
--yesterday always remains a long time ago--today is easy to remember--
Christmas Eve--my birthday and five days before Lido died, dies, will die--
same way each year
Day is getting longer now--
four times today I have ridden past where he died on December 29, 2008
--mud hole isn't deep there now--it was then--very warm just like today--
hit the brakes hard on the truck-jumped out to get a shot a a deer
-only one arm worked the other one was of little use from cerebral palsy-
gun went off as he pulled it from the truck--
he was seventeen
Was five years old when he came to the house along with his two sisters, Shelly and Stephanie and his brother John-
the last family that Momma and Daddy adopted--
I was in my thirties--
spent every moment that he could with me, riding, hunting, working horses--
and that was all it ever took to make him happy--
"we going to snack store? you got you check book?"
"What we goin' do today?"
"What we goin' do today?"
Christmas time has to be bittersweet. Hope you have a good Christmas and New Year. Hang in there - you ARE doing the right thing! Just think of all the young people whose lives you have changed.
ReplyDeleteMaggie
So much accomplished by, because of, and in the memory of one so young.
ReplyDeleteJust imagine everything which has been built and all the lives improved because of his indomitable spirit...
-Lloyd