Savor each hour

Dwell not in the past

Live each day fully

It may be your last

Mimi must have written this in 1998.  It is on her refrigerator under which hangs a photo of each of her grandchildren…  Featured here are Big J and Little A…. my brother’s kids.

There is a rhythm and routine to Mimi’s life… even 12 and a half years after this was written.  Every morning she makes her coffee.  She avidly reads the paper and watches the news.  She has set up a system for keeping track of her medications.  She converses easily about current events.  Boxes of photos – her past – are placed far away on the top shelf.  She lives in the present.

I have learned much from these visits about what has come before and what will come later.  She continues to teach me.   Just as she inspires me.  Somethings don’t change.