[at-l] Sad News

[David Addleton]

I read that sad story and thought about my two girls when they were little
and about the little girl that sat next me on the airplane from Chicago
Sunday night . . . Mama was afraid she'd be too much of a nusaince for me,
but we became good friends really fast, and I enjoyed holding her up to the
window to see the lights of Atlanta as we approached . . . she loved it . .
. It's really hard to imagine a tree a falling while walking by it and
snatching away such a young life . . . tho' it's not too hard to imagine
tying a hammock to a rotten tree in the dark!

On 8/1/06, Doug Mathews <mathews at uga.edu> wrote:
>
> Gypsy,
> My thoughts and prayers are with you and ignore uncaring and
> thoughtless people.
>
> I don't know how many on the list have grandchildren, but I have only
> 1, a girls soon to be 3 next week.  I feel a lot different towards
> her than I recall feeling about my 2 sons when they were that age and
> I was 40 years younger and trying to graduate and earn a
> living.  Perhaps its because she is a girl.  That may have something
> to do with it, but I think  it comes from being in a different place
> and what is important today is a lot different from 40 years ago.
> Children are just so darn special and to loose them has to be
> extremely traumatic.  I'm a lot more protective of my granddaughter
> (and not because she is a girl) than I ever was with my 2 boys.   I
> had the youngest one on a  large motorcycle by himself when he was
> almost 5 .   What was I thinking?  I'm glad I am as old as I am and
> in certain areas anyway think I have a better feel for what is
> important and cannot imagine my granddaughter not being around.
>
> Enough of my rambling for this evening.
>
> Mainframe
>
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