[Didjeridu] Something to share with our didj friends...OT

[PHultquist at aol.com]

So things have been in a bit of an upheaval around here. I know some of you  
are caring for elderly parents like we have been doing for nearly 15  years.. 
My Dad, Martin (97) chose Dec. 24, 2007 to make his departure.  Wasn't 
entirely unexpected, but still kinda shocking since he took it upon  himself to speed 
up the inevitable. Confronted with the outrageous expense  of running an obit 
in our local paper I have opted instead to put both my  parent's obits on our 
website at _www.logrhythmmusic.com/page7_ 
(http://www.logrhythmmusic.com/page7)  and  another epilog to the Biggie Book/journal regarding the deer behavior 
 surrounding Dad's passing.
 
Going thru parental possessions is an arduous task but is also very  
revealing. The single biggest lesson that we can share is to not wait for your  
elderly to leave without going thru their papers and possessions in detail. So  many 
questions arise like who is that in the picture, and when & where did  you 
get that whatchamacallit, and who gets it when you are through with  it? Then 
too, there is a bit of guilt that tags along with not  having done certain 
things and asked questions when you should have. 
 
Some of you are already aware that we have more than 50 years worth of  
letters that my parents (mostly Mom) wrote to their parents and Mom's sister.  They 
are very entertaining reading being weekly diaries of our lives,  and one 
such letter about my brother's and my aspirations for the future goes  something 
like this: Mom asks my brother, "David, what would you like to be some  day?" 
He responds with the same answer that he has used for 2 years with " a  
farmer."
Keep in mind that my brother was 7 and I was 5 at the time. 
Then she asks me "and what would you like to be Per?" to which I respond "a  
snowman." Upon hearing that my brother immediately went about trying to 
convince  me that there was no future in being a snowman, and so we both  ultimately 
settled on becoming soldiers. To this day I still haven't  experienced being 
either a snowman or a soldier, and I think I like it that  way;-)
 
Cheers,
 
Per & Eileen




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