LONG LIFE LIVED

I cannot believe how long its been since I posted my previous blog!
There have been quite a few things on my plate as of late, all demanding my attention.
None moreso than the recent passing of my paternal grandmother at the age of 105.

I hadn't the opportunity to visit with her in recent years. She spent the last 8 years in a nursing home in Georgia. And I reside here in Maine. My father's people were originally "New YAwkers" , but my aunt and uncle moved down south years ago and Grandma went along.
My fondest memory of her as a child are the times we spent playing some board game like Scrabble around the kitchen table when she would visit my parents. At that time I would have been 10 to 12 years old. My father being in the U.S. Navy, we were stationed at Naval Air Station, South Weymouth in Massachusetts.
In reflection, astonishing is the fact that her life encompassed the time frame of mankind's greatest technological achievements and social upheavals. Our world culture moves at greater speed than in days past. The cumulative knowledge of mankind grows expontentially.
In her time....the infancy of the automobile...the beginning of flight...trip to the moon. The computer..all the various telecommunications...medical advances. All major armed conflicts the United States has been involved in..WWI..WWII..Korea..Vietnam...Gulf War..Afghanistan and Iraq. The Cold War. The Great Depression. Social Security. At least 11 different Presidents. All the entertainers....the movies. The daily events. Friends and relatives loved and lost.
I guess to wrap it up...we are in my estimation survivors..tossed around on the tides of change and voyagers upon the Sea of Life.