Monday Morning Musings
Posted on May 30, 2016 under Monday Morning Musings with no comments yet
My mother’s 91st. birthday is today. We had a family barbeque yesterday. She made a passing comment that her legs have carried her a long was over nine decades. Well, it seems everyone is counting “ steps” these days so I did a little math and reckoned that mom ( and most of her peers! ) have probably clocked somewhere in the order of 500,000,000 steps. As I have said many times before, and I mean no disrespect to women of other generations, but most would agree that we will never see another generation like hers.
Social media continues to fascinate me. I met the most wonderful family this past weekend and it happened because of Facebook. They are from New Hampshire. Somehow, Meg, an X grad, stumbled upon one of my stories a while back and we’ve had a few chats via private message. So when they decided to come to Nova Scotia for a mini vacation, we decided to get together. Meg and Jeff have seven children including five from Ethiopia. They are a great family. We shared pizza and laughs… and we walked together yesterday at the MS Walk. I plan to feature them in an upcoming episode of “Faces in the Crowd.” ( FITC )
I have two more very interesting FITC stories in the next few weeks. Coming up Thursday, I have the story of a St.F.X. grad who has travelled to all parts of the world and has found his way back to Antigonish. He has roots in Antigonish even though he is a Pictou County native. He’s a sports enthusiast and an avid outdoors person, having scaled some of the tallest mountains in the world.
The other morning, while out on my daily walk, I had a brief encounter with a couple of folks who were attending the Coady. I was on one side of Braemore Avenue and they were on the other. We yelled pleasantries across the road and when I got home, I thought that they would make an interesting FITC story. Well, I tracked them down. Unfortunately by the time we met, one of them had already left Antigonish. The gentleman who is the subject of my story is almost an Antigonisher! He has been coming here every year for the past 6 years to teach a microfinance course at the Coady.
I have been officially retired for one year and I must say that it is better than I could have ever imagined. I am very lucky and extremely blessed.
Have a great week.
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