Comments on: Easter Wishes

By: Yikes

Yikes — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:29:03 +0000

that was heartwarming :)

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:33:02 +0000

Jim,

great Easter story. Thanks!!

By: Craig L. Adams

Craig L. Adams — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:13:25 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Jim. A beautiful tribute.

By: Richard Rush

Richard Rush — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:03:22 +0000

Jim, what a wonderful story and tribute to your great-grandmother!

I couldn’t help thinking about my own grandmother, and although she passed away over 30 years ago, I still miss her very much. Sometimes she is still in my dreams, and when I wake up I’m sad to realize I can’t really talk with her. She even had at least one thing in common with Easter – she took up oil painting later in life.

Occasionally I drive to the farm where she and grandpa lived when I was very young (I’m 63 now). I would spend many weeks there during the summers and many weekends during the school year. The property is now almost like a ruins, and the barn burned down long ago. I usually stop and sit for awhile and recall all the life I remember there.

Jeez, I’m crying as I write this. Few things make me as emotional as thinking about “Ma” as I always called her.

Have you ever seen the wonderful movie, “A Trip to Bountiful?” It’s been about twenty years since I’ve seen it. I didn’t just cry, I sobbed uncontrollably.

Thanks again for your story, Jim.

By: Regan DuCasse

Regan DuCasse — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:00:12 +0000

Jim, just beautiful. So beautiful! The vintage pictures you have are marvelous. Thank you for such a moving tribute to your grandmother.
Brings a tug to my heart. My maternal grandparents were the only ones I ever knew. And their period was the same as your grandmother’s. Late 1890′s to late 1980′s for my grampaw. Grams, was the name we called my grandmother.
They had stories…oh, WHAT stories!
Grampaw was such a handsome, elegant and FUNNY man! Doing things too, no one expected them to do. My grandfather was a lightskinned black man from Hampton, VA…grams was a tiny, little native american lady from VA, too.
Imagine any of them surviving the Great Depression and/or Jim Crow (in fact, 11 aunts and uncles from both sides of my family died in childhood during that time.)
They lived in an era of incredible change for this nation. And through their eyes Jim, we are left with a hell of a legacy, aren’t we?
Lovely name to give a girl, truly.
Happy Easter, my friends!