No One Wants To Think....

     Funny how things can change so quickly. I had a blog planned with just a few photos to show you today. One photo being this nice shot hubby took by the river the other day. There was a boat, a pair of blue shoes, and out on the boat ramp a little ways was...

     ...a wheelchair! There were no people around, so all that was left was the question: Why would someone leave a wheelchair, a boat, and a pair of sky blue...yes, I said sky blue...shoes out on a pier?!

           Wish I knew the answer.
      Just to make himself feel better hubby had to take a look down here...

      But all he saw was the current moving, and this little fella.

     I think he just "fish"-tailed himself over to see what all the clicking was about! :-] ....Anyway, it did seem kinda strange. Out here with all of this calm and quiet.

      Oh well, I've got some other things to tell you about today. Remember the GIVEAWAY that csnstores.com gave to my blog readers at the beginning of the month...The one that Becky of the blog Writings on Rose Petals won?! (I mentioned it here) Well Becky took her $55.00 gift and decided to get some pfaslzgraff dishes. She was nice enough to share a picture of some of the ones she got!

    Aren't they beautiful?!! Made me think that maybe I need to get some new dishes! But it also made me think that maybe I better keep that little thought to myself...considering the amount of dishes we already have around here and that hubby might not like my thought about getting some more! ^_^ Thanks for sharing them with us, Becky!!
   Unfortunately all of my news today is not good. First, I had a distant relative die last week. And then I got 2 phone calls last night...{I'm starting to hate the sound of a ringing phone}...One was at 6 O'Clock. My dad called to tell me that the girl who was my best friend in junior high school died yesterday...Cancer. She was the same age as me. We have relatives in common, so I have heard about her through the years, but I hadn't talked to her in about 35 years!! Yet, as soon as I heard her name, and that she had died, all of the childhood memories of us together came flooding back. Funny how that happens, isn't it?!
      I immediately started crying, but not just because she died. I was kinda angry that no one had told me! She apparently had been in and out of the hospital over the last several weeks and everyone kept thinking she would beat it, so there was no reason to tell me bad news. But now she's dead, and all I can think about is that I didn't get to share a laugh, a memory, a smile, or a hope of future things, with her.
    Then, a half an hour later...NO KIDDING....I got another phone call. Long distance. Another friend called to tell me that a girl I studied the Bible with many years ago had also died. Cancer again! She was cremated last week... *sigh*...What's with people giving you this kind of news AFTER THE FACT?!! Seems kind of cruel to me! I would love to have sent a meal, some flowers, made a phone call, or shared SOMETHING with them. Is that just me?! Would you rather not know when someone you cared about passed away?!!
    And as a little bit of salt in the wound, while I was on the phone with her, long distance, she yelled: "Oh No!!!" She was watching T.V. and saw on the news that Solomon Burke, "The King of Rock 'N Soul",  just died too! We're both music folks from waaay back...It's a good thing my pinched nerve is much better, and that I can do some comfort-bringing crocheting today. I think I'm going to need something to do with my mind today. YAY for pistachio yarn!!
    Yep! A poem came immediately to mind. But first one other photo hubby took. It might be a clue to who the blue shoes belong to, but we don't know for sure.

No one wants to...

No one wants to think of death,
the eventual certain coming end.
No one wants to contemplate
the death of loved ones and of friends.

No one wants to have to think
of how to lift the family's chin;
Of how to put a good face on it;
and give death a positive spin.

No one wants to shed hot tears.
To know the enemy, Death, will win.
That it's call we'll have to answer,
whether young boys, girls, or men.

No, no one wants to face it;
that death's next victim it will find.
They'd just rather not believe it,
or try to push death out of mind.

No, I don't want to, but I will.
'Cause that's what's needed here and now.
To be a shoulder they can lean on,
and share the faith I now endow.

And while I know that God has promised
no more death, pain, sorrow, tears;
Still I'll miss my friends and loved ones,
family, workmates, buds, and peers.