A Remembering party
Yesterday we went allll the way down to Saint John and alllll the way back again. It wasn’t a wake or a visitation, but a “celebration of life”. And what a life! Everyone said it was long and full.
Paddington Bear has now been entrusted to a little girl’s care and she takes it very seriously.
I also saw a lot of people that gave me ehad trips – people who hadn’t seen me since I was this high, or at my grandmother’s funeral (in the same room no less), or a high school friend who is now a friend of my father’s (although that was more cool).
There were a lot fo “I didn’t know he did that..”s. Like roller skating on stilts. Or pioneering researching about the effect of color on epileptics. Or the many and varied jobs he had. One thing I did notice: he never stopped learning. He used the computer and the internet well into his 80’s.
Afterwards, just the family went out to dinner. It was really really nice.
pics to follow, plus entries about Chicago. Getting back in the swing of things.
Edit: forgot to mention yesterday was pi day. And I’d forgotten about it until a former co-worker of Grampy’s mentioned that’s how he signed his initials like he did, with the two T’s as the Pi symbol. And here I thought it was because it was faster.
