To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
-Mary Oliver
-Mary Oliver
Saturday, January 9, 2010
the beginning -no. 1
OK... so this is the beginning of this very basic attempt to connect to grandparents and their lives in 1934. Exactly how I will do this is still in the thinking and running around my brain at the most odd times during my daily life stage. My uncle gave me a box of letters that my grandparents wrote to each other during 1934. He was off playing semi-professional baseball travelling across the US. She was home in Newport Ky. She worked at the ball field across the river in Cincinnati at this time. What is simply amazing to me is that she never knew where to send the letters exactly because they apparently were delivered by a third person associated with the team. Sometimes there is so much tension as they all are waiting to hear from him, his parents, her and her brothers. This will be a discovery time for me. I will be discovering them from another angle, not only as the grandparents I relied upon while growing up and "finding" my way... which I sometimes feel like I am still doing (and doing it rather badly) ...yet as young people themselves. I am excited to get started, but have a little research to do before I dive in. Maybe though just diving in is the way to go. I guess I will start with a letter a day, after I find some basic background info. He kept a scrapbook about this time period as well.
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Jodi, this is such a cool idea! I'm looking forward to following it. It will be better than a TV show!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike. I am excited about the voyage of re-discovering my grandparents,life in Newport during 1934, and that kentucky exposition team "The Kentucky Colonels of 1934"
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