ORAL TRADITIONS

I catch a glimpse of the sunrise as I close our window.  The air is very cold here first think in the morning.  I know others would think it was a heat wave.  This is what greets me on my morning walk.  A misty fog that seems to dampen the spirit as well as the body.  The last few days the sun has managed to show the fog who is boss and shines down on us.

Oral traditions keeping stories alive!

Our study group got off to a good start with telling jokes and ended the same way.  So we study and we laugh and we love one another as well as learn.  We have gotten to know each other so very well over the years and it has been good to see people become more confident in leading as well as praying.

I was thinking about our visits with Vera and Howard.  For years we sat on the same pew together and would enjoy social gathers at the church but now with our visits in their home we have grown so much closer and learned a lot about their early years and find we have lots in common.

While I was at the study dad went shopping at Cost-Co and bought a cupboard full of food.  We are annoyed at the prices at our Safeway Store which seem to be going up each time we shop there.  He did well with a long walk from his parking place and all around the store.  It was a little less crowded inside so that helped and we are gradually finding where things are.

Today dad and I are having lunch with Lois Dunlop whose parents were good friends with dad's parents.  They also looked after Sandra when I had to go back in hospital when she was only several months old.

 Boy that was hard and I cried myself to sleep every night.  I was very sick, tired and confused and lonely.  What kind of mother was I going to be?  I knew that being a good parent needed a lot of energy and strength and courage,

That was the doctor who said I did not have celiac and that went on my record.  They did not have proper testing back then.

How did this picture get way down here it is suppose to be back up under the other one?