My Mommas 97th today shared with Bush 43's 74th
It never registered with me till today that Momma shared the same birthday with Dubya.
I like Dubya just never thought he shoulda been president. I saw the movie. Proud of him for showing up with Laura and Barack and Michelle in Selma in 2015 but Dick Cheney and the War in Iraq were disasters.
I knew Momma better than Dubya so gonna talk about her now. I have blogged before about her getting her name in the Atlanta Constitution before I did; come to think of it I still haven't so still in the Never did column.
And I confess there were decades even when she was disappointed in my failure to fulfill my promise at least in conventional terms, but there were decades maybe the first two and then the last one, that gives me thirty years where I think she was proud.
I know in my heart she was proud of the phone call I made to My Friend Four this morning on her 97th.
Daddy told me a few years after Momma died after his first month or so of sermons at Bethel outside Newport Tn, She came to him and said "Billy, if that's the best you can do we're gonna have a rough row to hoe."
Thomas Barksdale liked that story.
Got me to thinking about how Andy Gunn and our Mormon Friend Mark Poole finished our academic career at Gaffney High. Miss Chadwick gave us an academic year to read six short stories. With about three weeks to go the three of us were about ten or eleven behind.
Momma opened up the Baptist church for us to have focussed study for our delinquency on reading and writin.
We all got em in and I think Momma typed mine. If not Miss Chadwick woulda had a cease and desist of the three of the top ten grads that year and woulda been a disaster as my Most Intellectual picture was already in the annual.
There is a cartoon picture somewhere around the house of a woman in a 50s skirt with a baseball glove behind a 2nd base little leaguer deep in the infield. She has her glove open just in case and the kid says, I got it Mom.
That was my Momma
I like Dubya just never thought he shoulda been president. I saw the movie. Proud of him for showing up with Laura and Barack and Michelle in Selma in 2015 but Dick Cheney and the War in Iraq were disasters.
I knew Momma better than Dubya so gonna talk about her now. I have blogged before about her getting her name in the Atlanta Constitution before I did; come to think of it I still haven't so still in the Never did column.
And I confess there were decades even when she was disappointed in my failure to fulfill my promise at least in conventional terms, but there were decades maybe the first two and then the last one, that gives me thirty years where I think she was proud.
I know in my heart she was proud of the phone call I made to My Friend Four this morning on her 97th.
Daddy told me a few years after Momma died after his first month or so of sermons at Bethel outside Newport Tn, She came to him and said "Billy, if that's the best you can do we're gonna have a rough row to hoe."
Thomas Barksdale liked that story.
Got me to thinking about how Andy Gunn and our Mormon Friend Mark Poole finished our academic career at Gaffney High. Miss Chadwick gave us an academic year to read six short stories. With about three weeks to go the three of us were about ten or eleven behind.
Momma opened up the Baptist church for us to have focussed study for our delinquency on reading and writin.
We all got em in and I think Momma typed mine. If not Miss Chadwick woulda had a cease and desist of the three of the top ten grads that year and woulda been a disaster as my Most Intellectual picture was already in the annual.
There is a cartoon picture somewhere around the house of a woman in a 50s skirt with a baseball glove behind a 2nd base little leaguer deep in the infield. She has her glove open just in case and the kid says, I got it Mom.
That was my Momma
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