30 May 2014

End of June

This is a trial run for Ruth living alone at Garfield Place in and around (@) the western edge of La Junta Colorado.  Elsa has been calling all morning from Denver.  Ruth is confused and distracted by her calls.  Our neighbors, however, have also been staying in touch with Ruth at the house -- ready to help.  This includes Ruth's community of Ruby Friends on Facebook.  They are led by people who don't normally use the Internet and who are not on Facebook:
  1. Lloyd and Billie Nelson,
  2. Wayne (nickname Herb), and
  3. Carolyn Marlow of
  4. The Family Worship Center in Rocky Ford.
I am gone to Kansas with Cheryl and Donald to visit my great-grandson and namesake.

5 AM, Monday, 2 June 2014

Grandad has returned to take over the task of moving me to New Mexico.



By 10:30 AM, Grandad has had his orange juice, prescription medicine, coffee, a cookie and has read his morning paper.  He has turned in his weather report.  These activities are a daily routine.  This morning he also has had a talk, and come to a clear understanding, with the people at Casa Del Sol about his cats.

At last, he has also kept his promise to Ruth.  He has cleared her Galaxy and the garage of the "stuff" that keeps her from driving her car to New Mexico.  She wants to move to Edgewood. Events, even more than "stuff" however keep getting in her way.  This time of year Ruth struggles also with severe depression.  June is the month in which she became a widow.


3 pm, Wednesday, 4 June 2014

Grandad is napping.  Ruth has been dealing "Trouble With Angels."  Watching classic movies on TCM with Abba and Grandad began several years ago.  Back then, drCCYmom saw the problems differently than Ruth does now.  She has learned from her elders.  It started with "The Student Prince."

Ruth was not yet a doctor or a mom.  Nor was her name Crisp-Yeager or even Senty.  In the mid-fifties, she was barely a teen!  Her name was Carolyn Ruth Goff, and she attended school in Lemont, Illinois, where she lived with foster parents.  She was the age that her children were in the late nineteen seventies -- the age when dreaming of the future takes hold of a human heart.

Ruth had not, at that time, yet been to Europe.  She had not seen Rome or the Vatican.  She knew nothing of "rebirth" as a Christian.  Those experiences would wait until after her fifteenth birthday and after her mother's marriage to Jim Marino had born fruit.

 6:20 am, Thursday, 5 June 2014

Ruth enjoys being Grandad's home body.  She gets up as early as she wants to work with Dr. Crisp-Yeager, CEO of Covenant Programs, Incorporated in Colorado.  She feeds the cats and makes her own breakfast.  She listens to the birds outside and watches for dawn.  She reads The Washington Post when she has time and listens to The Weather Channel -- checking local weather "on the eights."

Ruth does all of these things daily to privately inform Carolyn Crisp-Yeager's writing before checking her network for email.  This morning she was pleased to find https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/146685fc095ab5de
(Charlie's angels) in my inbox.


GranCCY

3:13 pm, Saturday, 7 June 2014

I'm reading a book, Slavery's Constitution, that I bought during a recent trip to the Barista.

7:50 am Thursday June 12, 2014

The slavery issue, which was very much alive at the time The Constitution was being written, was not spoken of directly during debate.  There are many indirect references, however, to slavery in The Constitution.  This is an interesting and unusual book.

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