May 19, 2009
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The Daily News
1 Thank you for the outpouring yesterday; it meant a lot to me and to my entire family. Just awesome.
2 The service for my Mom will be a reasonably short one on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at St. Roberts Church, 1390 Crystal Springs Rd. San Bruno, CA 94066-4794. It’s just a church and out, and food/party at my childhood house.
3 We’ve been fine, looking through old pictures, smiling a lot at vacations, Christmases and all the rest. Lotta love, lotta laughs.
4 My sister Linda showed me a little notebook that my Mom has kept for years, adding any words of wisdom she would find each time they would appear. Here are a few, but I intend eventually to write them all down in the order in which they appear. It’s a little notebook with handwritten items, along with newspaper clippings and several cartoons from Family Circus. Here are a few items my Mom felt should have been handed to posterity:
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Theresa
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
Victor Hugo
The most important thing a parent can teach a child is how to get along without them.
Anonymous
Other things may change us but we start and end with family.
Anonymous
The past is only a great series of lessons to form a foundation in which to build the future.
Anonymous
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep the sunlight.
Ben Franklin
Life is mostly froth and bubble.
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.
Anonymous
To My Grown-up Children
My hands were busy through the day,
I didn’t have much time to play
The little games you asked me to.
I didn’t have much time for you.
I’d wash your clothes and sew and
cook,
But when you’d bring your picture
book
And ask me please to share your fun,
I’d say “a little later, hon.”
I’d tuck you in al safe at night
I’d kiss and hug you, dim the light.
Then tiptoe softly to the door.
I wish I’d stayed a minute more.
Life is short and years rush past.
And little children grow up fast.
No longer are they at your side,
Their precious secrets to confide.
My hands once busy now lie still,
The days are long and hard to fill.
I wish I might go back and do
The little things you asked me to.
Alice E. Chau
The First Christmas
If on the first Christmas,
the three wise men had been women,
they would have
asked for directions,
arrived on time,
cleaned the stable,
helped deliver the baby,
made a casserole
and brought practical gifts.
Anonymous
Any day above ground is a good day.
Anonymous
Do you not find it curious
that you’ve never seen your own face?
Anonymous
Even if you’re on the right track,
you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
A Wish for Life
May there always be work for your hands to do.
May your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine on your window pane.
May a rainbow be certain to follow the rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer
you.
5 I won’t even try to top those. She had been collecting them for years, and there were many more. Ingenius.
6 Anyway, those I have dubbed Nonie’s Wisdom.
7 That’s the amazing mind of my Mom.
8 Thought I’d share.
9 Thanks again for all the love and support.
10 Peace.
~H~
and with a special thanks to Moms
