Today’s quote probably makes you think of someone that is no longer living…
…. Not where I’m going this morning.
I saw a meme recently that said, “don’t wish there was a phone to heaven because you rarely called me when I was alive.”
People that are dead… I see them all the time!
I’ll be sitting on the crapper and suddenly my dad wants to talk about steam locomotives we chased in 1979.
“Fuck sake Dad! I’m taking a crap! Don’t you have better things to do right now in heaven! Get Uncle Charlie and catch Louis Armstrong playing!”
When waking up in the morning is the second hardest thing… there’s my mom at the end of the bed telling me to take a cold shower.
“Come on Mom! Remember when you were worried that I was humping everything when I was twelve? I’m still humping stuff Ma! Go make Jesus some zucchini bread!”
Today’s quote is more about the cousin on the Southside or the cousin on the Westside that I don’t see very often.
It’s the Aunt or old friend in Indianapolis that I don’t drive down I-65 to visit…
It’s an old co worker up in Lake County or even an old friend in Lagrange.
As life grows closer to its last day we fall out of touch with the people that got us to where we are.
It’s a two way phone call… maybe it’s time to get to know the people that you once knew?