Question of the Day | 05/21/2009 11:00 pm
What are you doing for Memorial Day weekend?
Cynthia McFadden, Candice Bergen and the wOw women share their holiday plans. For further inspiration on what you can do this weekend, revisit what the wOw women did last Memorial Day by clicking here.
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How many even know anymore who Memorial Day originally commemorated?
Remembering my brother and my parents and waiting for news to see if my son gets out of the army and doesn’t have a 4th deployment to Iraq - (no thanks Mr. President)
Garden and beach figures in there somewhere.
Just remembered - an exhibit at the Getty is about to end. Black and gold lacquered Japanese boxes and chests (made for export). They are one of my favorite things. Did a paper in College on them and there are a few in the collection I have never seen before. LOVE IT!
We should all remember your family’s sacrifices - far more important than any parade or barbecue.
That is so kind of you. My heart is with all the families that have loved ones over there right now. I know how they feel. While their loved ones are deployed, there is not one minute of any day that there is total rest or peace. Even while sleeping there is a listening for the phone. No turning the phone off in the bedroom, always a waiting for a call or their return. The calls come in the middle of the night and everyone in the family jumps up and we put the call on speaker phone and savor every word as if they were rare and precious jewels. Never wanting to let the thought enter that those may be the last words of theirs you hear. I still have messages left on my answer machine from my son when he was gone. I leave them there there so that I will always have his voice somewhere. I know it is odd now that he is back and I can call him if I want to, but he is stop lossed to go again and who knows what will happen.
Your eloquent comments brought tears to my eyes. Would you consider sending them to our President? You could do so very easily via http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/
This might interest you, Frannie, from the New York Times:
[The President] asked all Americans to pause at 3 p.m. on Monday for a moment of remembrance. And he addressed head-on his own lack of military service, in one of the few passages that brought applause from the crowd.“My grandfather served in Patton’s army in World War II; I cannot know what it is like to walk into battle,” the president said. “I’m the father of two young girls, but I can’t imagine what it is like to lose a child. These are things I cannot know. But I do know this: I am humbled to be the commander-in-chief of the finest fighting force in the history of the world.”
Think of a whimsical, multileveled tree house on Heck-of-a-Hill Road (for good reason) outside Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a B&B like no other high in the Grand Tetons as our lodging for a long, long weekend. An irrresistibly beautiful area that draws us back again and again … so close to the long, high mountain climb to 11,000 foot Surprise Lake - where we saw a black bear high in the tree guarding this gorgeous, rather-hard-to-get-to place. Each time we have climbed, down below the Rockefeller family hideaway at Phelps Lake is just visible — and it is a "wow"! Moose abound.
On Sunday, we had reservations for an early morning sunrise hot-air balloon ride high over the mountains - one that takes the breath away each time we have gone.
That was our long-awaited plan and journey. . but… However, there always seem to be twists and turns in life, aren’t there? Always unexpected. On our way Tuesday we did get into the the Colorado Rockies, snow-encrusted still… where I somehow took a leap gone wrong, ruining my leg and hip (as well as our dreams.)
So now - the wondrous Memorial Day weekend will begin at the hospital at dawn with X-rays, no doubt physical therapy, and no doubt spent flat on my back. Hardly the return to the wilds — not close. We already are calling this journey only "a plan postponed" perhaps until Fall rolls around.
May your weekends have a happy beginning and a happy ending … and I will save up my doctor stories that are sure to come when the right question comes around!!!
Speedy recovery to you, Joan! So glad your ‘posting fingers’ are still in working order. Rest properly and feel better.
Oops … an added thought for those of you who are only looking forward to an ordinary weekend. . well, I have a good idea. Almost all of us are over 40 - and then some - and there is a Dustin Hoffman DVD just out called Last Chance Harvey about people that could be like us. It is "real" and worth a look — and you can let me know what you think!!!
Joan, I’m ‘here’ if you need me - you know how to reach me. Remember, your first step must be only that which brings you health and recovery!
Thinking about what to do on "wheels" - frankly after seeing the horrors of the elders in AZ (AARP and all insurance companies need to be put in federal prision for selling their pseudo-HMO plans and taking our most vulnerable populations off of original Medicare so they cannot see the doctors they need (and doctors don’t give a damn), I need more rest!
I’ll be with self-actualizing humanists on Sunday, I hope, but the DVD sounds like a good idea (The Savages threw me into a depression). Maybe a Grouch Marx DVD will cover up The Savages.
I cannot get near a cemetary on wheels, or I’d pack a little salad, and go to one for Memorial Day - I’d be the only one there, I’m sure, and certainly the only one in a powerchair with a ventilator on it. ;-))
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