Another Morning Sunrise ~ 9-5-12

Highland Belle Track at Start of Sunrise ~ 9-5-12

I-81 ~ 9-5-2012

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
~Vladimir Nabokov

Breezemont Bell

This is the old ship’s bell that hung out by our kitchen when we lived in Asheville, NC. It was used for calling the children in from the neighborhood for dinner. When we moved to Virginia, we brought it with us and put it out front in an old tree. This time the tree grew around it so it’s there to stay. Each day when I see it,  wonderful old memories are triggered of happy times past when the children were young free to run and play.  


It certainly is a different world they live in today, and I am frightened to think of what is ahead for them and my grandchildren. If it is this hard now for our families in 2011, heaven only knows what it is going to be in the future if the government - both state and national -  does not START thinking about ALL citizens, stop arguing, STOP thinking only of themselves and being reelected, and START doing something to help ALL of us. As a mother and grandmother, I am scared to death. I know what is ahead for me...that final act...dying...and I am ready for that one. No one knows what is ahead for them, but in my mind it does not  look good. I am not ready for that. It is just too heartbreaking.

"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.”

  ~Edward de Bono

This post is linked with Mellow Yellow Monday.