Friday, December 21, 2018
Life's Like That
A day ago Jan, a well-liked resident of Sis's apartment complex for senior citizens, was teaching her class for Chair Yoga at their apartment in the activities room, as usual. The next day Sis exited her apartment and found a line of unkempt and upset old ladies standing like a line of vultures down...
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Saturday, December 15, 2018
To Embrace Sadness
".....and should my memory fail so that I remember no more, I think that day the gentle rain will fall as tears, in longing for the company that we kept." ~ TAPS A sadness sits upon my head, and weighs upon my heart....a sadness that will not go away with the reading of Blogit bits, or the playing...
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Tell Me A Story
The small farms on the south side of Richmond, MO in those years were the Bohemian Czechs. In fact, going south on Camden Road were many Jelinek families all kin. There were three families with a Rose Jelinek and they were all cousins. There was Rose (my mom), Big Rose, and Little Rose called Rosie....
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Friday, December 14, 2018
A Permanent Job?
It finally ended--the Year 1935, but not the Depression, not the dust storms, not the suffering, not the displaced, not the homeless, not the hunger, not the unemployed, not the food lines, the scrabbling for daily needs. The Year 1936 found Hursel and his family still living with Rose's parents on...
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Thursday, December 13, 2018
Come Boy, We Play Ka'-zi-no
Christmas of 1935 was a special one for Rose and Hursel even though the world was upside down in the Great Depression with the Dust Bowl from Canada through Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. Hursel's Papa passed away On April 6, on the 14 of April, known as Black Sunday, the Dust Bowl hit in full force...
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