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Elderly, honor your father, Honor your mother, RESPECT YOUR ELDERS, Veterans, We Are A Nation That Cares Nothing For Our Elderly, WW2
I have been gone all day, singing. We are not even at home for the next half hour because the July 4th weekend is busy for the elderly & WW2 vets, and we must set up for tomorrow. Up, down, in, out…Setting up a very small sound system… The weekend is full of festivities.. Our elders worked on this affair and deserve the honor. It is not ‘top pay.’ Just a little. I sang “Long ago and far away“, a song that Jo Stafford made famous in 1943. I watched as tears welled up in the eyes of an older man. He was from “Da Bronx” (that’s what he said) The man had just lost his wife, and was so very sad. He served in the military during WW2.
I sang the best I could, of course. There was, however, a hair stuck in my throat. The whole dang time I was singing, it irked my tonsil! So, when something like this occurs, one says to oneself: ‘fake it ’til you make it.’ Which is what I did. At the end, I sang “Cabaret.” I sang these great older songs with all of my heart. The elderly deserve it- that and anything I can give them with any talent God has blessed me with.
At the end, many came up and thanked me, shook my hand and I asked God to please bless each and every one of them. A sweet older lady in a wheelchair came and thanked me and then proceeded to pour out her heart to me. Her daughter had stranded her to the elderly home. ‘Just dropped me off’, she told me, and “What do you think of that?” What could I say? I am embarrassed. Sickened with the gen x’ers. I wanted to stay with her all day long to soothe her pain & loneliness.
It dawned on me that it is easy to care for and love a baby because they are cuddly and cute–not so easy to love an older person. Many are on depends, have lost their memory, dementia has set in, etc.. A basic commandment most Americans cannot seem to follow anymore “Honor thy mother and father” Why? That it may be well for YOU. That thy days may be long upon the land that the Lord, thy God giveth YOU. So, if you refuse to honor your mother and father.. Don’t complain when it is not going well for YOU.
Think about it. Think hard. They sacrificed so much. We give so little. Shameful.
May God please be with our elders in these horrible and challenging times.
Thank you so much for caring for the elderly. I, actually we -lots of us ladies read your w/site- for a long time, about 3 yrs.
I, personally don’t like commenting because of rheumatoid. I hurt so and my own kids care nothing for me. I sometimes wish they had not been born. Raising them in a nice home, cooking, cleaning for them. They act like I’m not alive.
I read that you are taking time off. I hope that you will have a complete recovery. It’s hard going through what you endured.. Rest well and come back soon.
Glad you are an Arizonan. We all love Joe Arpaio up where I’m at, too.
Thank you again and God bless you.
HI Arlene: Looks like you live near me. We can get together sometime! Who knows? I love elderly people. Their guts, gumption, their morals and ethics.
Terrible. I pray hard that God will ease you.
I feel so bad about your kids.
NO, I dont want to come back full time on the blogging and putting up info, just tired. Never really emotionally, psychologically put my mind to have some rest. I feel like I need a year. Thank you for that
God bless ya right back
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Heck MJ if I can keep doing it, you can– told ya months ago you’re too ornery to give up
MJ, very sweet post. So true about the elderly. When I had aunts in the nursing home and visited them, it was so sad. I looked around and saw these people who had memories of what used to be and they too were once young. Those who had lost their memories (like my two aunts from altzimers) were sweet and pitiful. Many people forget the elderly thinking they themselves will never get old. I think it is sweet the way you love them and I am sure you are a blessing when you go sing. That was something I wanted to do, but just never got around to it. Oh and my mother loved Jos Stafford. She loved that old music and I was the only one who could appreciate it with her.
They DESERVE the kindness, RH. We should all be sickened at how they are treated.. I know, I know “God BLESS America”… Please
Yes, you can tell how bad things are getting when the elderly and pets are treated like shit. Blacks are the worse, they love beating and raping old White women. A hot wind stirs.
BTW: Dig your new format. Love that serif italic font for heads and quotes. Very classy. However, you did copy the page white background with black body copy idea from me. I remember your old WP site with the black background, very hard to read. Too many use it thinking they are so “edgy.”
More BS spotting from the INCOG.
You should try to find how to change the body copy font to a serif. Might look nicer. Easier to read long amounts. But then again, you don’t put in as much, like I do.
Im moving on up, Incog..
I was talking with a friend that has a diff. host. He told me that his statistics were bupkis here and went to some other host and his statistics are 100x better.
Of course WordPress does not like me.. I cant figure out why.
Yes, I like the black background because I am the big, mean, Jew bitch–dark, dreary hag… But, others like white, so, white it is.
But then again, you don’t put in as much, like I do.
Nope, I am a pretty empty-headed Jew, as other ‘Jews’ tell me often enough.
MJ, nothing “empty headed” about you!
Yeah, I can make all types of silly noises and I LOVE farts