New Light

I was watching RMPBS, Arts District, and saw - once again - The Aztec Calendar. 

PERFECT timing!

We had finished a morning of work and wished one another a happy "Grandparents Day" when Ruth's daughter rang the doorbell.  I opened the door.  Ruth had just sat down to eat her lunch.  It was a surprise visit that made one grandparent very happy.

Monday 14 September

Carolyn has taken over so that Ruth and I might retire.

Friday 18 September

Yes, Dexter.  Thanks for that introduction!  It has been a full week getting ready for our annual meeting next Tuesday evening.

Stepping IT Back a Byte

Ruth awoke before 4 AM MDT.  She has been stepping back, working for me, at Rainbow Way.  She studies HIStory.

Tuesday 24 March 2013:

• TCM Movies
• C-SPAN3 and Book TV
• PBS Frontline
• A Cloud Mystery

Carolyn, CYFFR

Building On The Promise

With Dexter Hess, R'SON

Abba and I

Abba and I had some catching up to do.  We visited in his home and talked as we used to do in his service station.

Monday 16 March 2015 saw me working in earnest to move out of La Junta and on to New Mexico.  I had begun to watch not movies (as Abba does) but History TV, C-SPAN3, in order to learn from the past. M. MacMillan's new book really hooked me.

Ruth

A Holiday Success Story

Saturday:  Grandad hosted a party.  He and Mom played table games, served lasagna and took a day of rest.

Sunday:  Carolyn Ruth was working in the office while Grandad visited friends in Rocky Ford.  A week later, that was the Sunday before Thanksgiving, they both did a lot of napping!

Monday: I drafted a master letter transferring my thoughts from inside my head, through my fingers to the Internet and onto paper while Grandad waited for sunrise, and Mom did laundry.  Carolyn worked in her office, and Ruth helped her.

Tuesday:  Routine shopping day!

Wednesday:  Watering and free pie -- "hump day" -- Mom is watching TCM movies like

1. The Secret Garden, or
2. Beauty and the Beast 

 or Gilmore Girls these days in the afternoons until she falls asleep rather than meeting friends or children at La Junta's Village Inn.

  
Thursday:  We juggled desktops, keyboards and telephones before GOOD FRIDAY!  Use the comment section below to ask why.  PM Thanksgiving Day, Grandad got the message, "oink, oink -- I'm stuffed!"

A VAN

Mom has proposed to buy half interest in Grandad's old Ford Windstar van.  It is all she needs to assure herself of safe, independent transportation in the future IF Grandad were to die before she does.  Moving into her new Pueblo office space, Mom is honing in on STEM education.  (http://www.spacefoundation.org/education or https://www.google.com/#q=Wikipedia+STEM+education)

Abused Hospitality

Both Mom and Grandad are suffering from a case of abused hospitality.  It started about Thanksgiving Day a year ago at the Academy Hotel.  That was the second year in a row that she had invited not only her family but his to share in her favorite holiday.  Grandad has made it perfectly clear that he will not allow his children to abuse Mom's hospitality any longer.  None of their children will be invited to celebrate holidays with one another ever again.  Grandad feels "obligated" to spend holidays alone with his step-children for the rest of his life.  Mom will spend the holidays missing him with her own friends and family.

Passing ... and Changing

Grandad and I have been settling back into a comfortable routine.  We've been passing one another like two silent ships sailing a quiet sea.  "Good morning" were the only words to pass between us as we went independently to work.  He is now on his way to Scaff Bros.  They will start again today at 6:30 am.  I plan to work at home:

1. Writing
2. Tending the house
3. Tending the garden
4. Caring for pets

Tending house,  I'm restoring hospitality to all who approach by the front door and ring the doorbell with good intentions for Dr. Hess.  I also plan to change two signs.

1. The sign on the bathroom door will read, "Library."
2. The sign on the door to the Christmas Room will read, "Sewing."

Carolyn R.S. Crisp-Yeager, Ph.D.

Facebook

Using Facebook, Mom has discovered a fundamental issue in current world economy.  Mankind (i.e. human men and women) are fixated on images of themselves, believing that we are made, not like others but "in the image of God."  A few years ago, not long after his wife of over fifty years had died, Grandad met Mom in the local library and began to court her.  It was a long standing habit for him to court women who appeared tall with dark hair, quick and agile.

Mom had none of these attractions.  In fact, Mom had a lifelong habit of doing battle with these characteristics that had drawn wolf calls (whistles) when she was young.  Now she is well past the age of seventy.  She chides friends who habitually try to make her feel attractive again by calling her "young lady."  Grandad has never made that mistake.  He used well rehearsed romantic wiles to seduce her, and she fell for the WORD (PROMISE) of this hero of "The Greatest Generation" of Americans.

Big Date

Mom had an hour to kill before her big date this weekend with Dr. Hess, aka Grandad, so she used it to do her laundry.  She carefully removed the little pins from the fishing hat that he had given her back in the day before they separated.  Today is Saturday, Mom's day to rest.  Dr. Hess is taking her to the air show in Pueblo.

End of July

We are looking forward to Lexi's birthday followed by Grandad's!  We plan to spend both days in New Mexico again.

 8:30 am Tuesday 1 July 2014:  Grandad has accepted Mom's separation.  He just called and asked her to lunch with him at his house so that they might discuss THEIR THOUGHTS about the future.  GranCCY continued to use Facebook to answer questions, and Ruth is telling her friends, privately, that she will not make any more plans with Grandad until after they are in New Mexico again on his birthday.

1:00 am 3 July 2014: Just in time to celebrate INDEPENDENCE, Mom has learned to set aside her fear of the moral judgments that Grandad's children continue to make against her.

9:00 am +/- 5 min 4 July 2014:  IN THE NEWS!

1.  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/buzz-aldrin/
2.  http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/hurricane-arthur-live-blog-updates-20140702
3. Annette asks Mom to take her to Chama so they can put flowers on Lee's grave.
4. A FRIEND AT CHURCH IN COLORADO +'d our New World blog
5. Feuding continues in the Middle East.

8:00 pm 6 July 2014: Hopefully, we've learned a lesson.

8:00 pm 7 July 2014:  After a stressful day for Grandad, the details of his deceased wife's family reunion are falling into place so that Mom can prepare to receive their house guests in comfort..

By the ides of the month, Grandad had learned the full extent of his children's nightmare.

5:30 am 17 July 2014:  I hear Grandad.  He is up and headed for work at Scaff. 

6:20 pm 19 July 2014:  Mom and Grandad have enjoyed the security of their home and a day of rest.

1:12 pm 23 July 2014:  Mom has not been sitting still.  She is waiting, however, to see:

1. Will Grandad keep his promise to spend his birthday with GranCCY?
2. Will he give her an eviction notice?

In any case, she and GranCCY are prepared.  Mom has rented new space for her office in Pueblo, and is working on her move!

10 pm 24 July 2014:  Yes!  It is clear now that Grandad intends to keep his promise.  He and Mom have agreed that GranCCY must be evicted while she is still strong enough to take the shock. Mom is helping her choose the furniture to take, and their friend Ruth will move with her.  A host of friends and neighbors have been giving timely advice ONLY WHEN ASKED.     This is what old folks appreciate most.  Understanding this is how Grandad and GranCCY became pals and housemates in the first place.

11:33 pm 25 July 2014:   Feeling rested after a hard day's work, I'm watching Charlie Rose interview an artist.  I read again last night's entry and appreciate that Mom too is an artist.  She has written and blogged many ideas successfully from many points of view.

NOON 27 July 2014:  Mom and Grandad are celebrating.

9:30 am 29 July 2014:  GranCCY just heard the train leaving for Albuquerque.  Grandad is enjoying coffee with friends at Casa Del Sol and planning to spend his birthday with friends in Rocky Ford while Mom works with her neighbors to move into her new apartment.

4:40 pm 31 July 2014:  Mom began imagining a tug o' war might be about to begin.

9 pm 31 July 2014:  Grandad and GranCCY watched the sun set and talked about his birthday cards, about their love for classical music, and about their differences.  She had just had supper alone for the first time in the new apartment.

The Meeting

Grandad arranged yesterday's meeting for Mom with Ruby Friends, 1:00 PM at Village Inn.  Mom arrived early and used CYFFR's flip phone to include far away friends in the meeting of minds with The Great Spirit that they all call Christ.

Friday 27 June, Grandad and Ruth enjoyed a chance meeting with an elderly vet.

The Night

Journey to Justice
Garfield Place

Grandad and GranCCY have made a journey with their "Ruby Friends."  All who visit here are welcome to explore the archives by following these links as CYFFR CONTINUES to work with Covenant Programs's service organizing network (R'SON) doing research and development of IT.

GranCCY does nearly all of the writing and correspondence these days while Grandad continues to work with Scaff Brothers and in his garden.

Taking A Brake!

When Mom spent a summer with Corwin Robinson, laughing together in Lemont, Illinois, he taught her to read "STOP" signs as "Squeal Tires On Pavement."  After several high school boyfriends, and not yet actually in college, Mom had fallen in love again.  She was sixteen.  Her first "love" had been Peter Lowe in second grade -- also in Lemont.

That summer, Mom became convinced that she would marry a minister.  There was no way that she could have known that he would also be a banker and a business man, the leader of his class.

Today Mom is over seventy.  She doesn't "fall" in love any more; she chooses carefully.  So when Dr. Hess "fell" for her, she studied this scientist as closely as he studied her.   They have become close friends and correspondents.  Mom has also been studying Gilmore Girls.  They help her go to sleep smiling after listening to Congress via C-SPAN2 all morning.

This afternoon, however, Mom has reverted.  She'll be watching some older stuff for a while to help her relax before sleep -- including:

1. The Right Stuff
2. Mrs. Doubtfire
3. Lincoln
4. Somewhere in Time
5. OBAMA

Multi-Tasking

Given the flood of correspondence and tasks that she shares with Grandad, Mom has become an expert in "multi-tasking."  There are those who believe there is no such possibility, but Mom has learned it can be done with the help of Ruby Friends.  It is proof of the power of Social Synergy.

Ruby Friends

Ruth has just used Google + to invite our old friends from The Rocky Ford Senior Center to help with Grandad's autobiography.

Breakfast stop at the Copper Kitchen Cafe in La Junta, Colorado:  Grandad told Mom a hobo story.  The memory was triggered by seeing a man enter the restaurant wearing a backpack and using a tall walking stick.  Earlier this week, he said, two men came into the station where he had stopped for a cup of coffee and to read his morning paper.  The older man headed straight for the restroom.  The younger, still a youth, told Grandad that they were headed for Denver.  Grandad said to Mom,

The boy was upbeat -- excited.  It was an adventure.  The old man was negative -- complaining about everything.

Easter

Given these recent events, Mom is taking GranCCY to be with John and Friends.  They intend to celebrate Easter together this year.

S/he = Synergy/health education

This formula summarizes THE MEANING of the results of a conversation that all concerned here have enjoyed these past three years since Abba supported Ruth's "Journey to Justice" with Grandad.

Friends

Working together this past weekend, Ruth and I have accomplished many things.

1. We both made it through without falling.
2. We cleared a space for my van in the garage.
3. I improved the space above my kitchen sink to her satisfaction.

During my nap time she watched:

1. Bing West on C-SPAN's "In Depth"
2. Apple Down! Gilmore Girls season five episode 89

Gilmore Girls is our family favorite!  I gave the whole series DVDs to Ruth for her birthday a couple of years ago.  I have to admit that I like watching it as much as Ruth does -- over and over.  Dex

Empath

Dear Children,
     Mom is more than my private secretary and computer guru.  She is acting in her retirement as an empath -- more than a psychological consultant -- to the world.  I have seen for myself how she draws forth the illness within a person, a family or a community and deliberately allows that illness to attack her own person.
     Today is Wednesday.  We plan to meet as usual at the Village Inn.  If any of you want to visit with us and ask Mom about this please call my house (Mom's office) number before 11 AM.  Leave a message telling us what time you expect to be there.  We will call you back to confirm a mutually agreeable time.

+ Books

Mom has been studying -- and adding books to Grandad's bibliography.  They are both disappointed in the children who continue to ignore their offers to help.  Teachers first and foremost, and Ph.D. career scientists, they have hoped their children would want to inherit something of value from each of them. "NOT YET!" is the resounding response.  So both Grandad and Mom (aka GranCCY) have resolved to leave them their autobiographies.  Since none of their children love to read books, they are offering their stories via Facebook and blogs.