90
Today my Grandmother turns 90. You'd hardly know it to meet her, but she is. I remember my Grandfather's (the other side of the family) 90th birthday when he said to me, "If I'm not careful I might start getting old soon." It seems my grandparents on both sides of the family truly lived that notion of age being in the head.
90 years old, that's a long time. I try and do anything for 90 minutes and I get tired. How much longer is 90 years? What kind of changes has she lived through? As I child I can't imagine that cars and phones were all that present around northern Minnesota. Now she gets e-mails from around the world from Grandchildren. World Wars... Great Depression... Civil Rights Movement... dot com boom... Political Scandals... And that's just on the grand stage, what else is there? What an amazing life she has lived. How much more can things change in her lifetime? It's an amazing, incredible thing. Happy Birthday!!
90 years old, that's a long time. I try and do anything for 90 minutes and I get tired. How much longer is 90 years? What kind of changes has she lived through? As I child I can't imagine that cars and phones were all that present around northern Minnesota. Now she gets e-mails from around the world from Grandchildren. World Wars... Great Depression... Civil Rights Movement... dot com boom... Political Scandals... And that's just on the grand stage, what else is there? What an amazing life she has lived. How much more can things change in her lifetime? It's an amazing, incredible thing. Happy Birthday!!
posted by pb @ 10:51 AM
2 Comments:
At 3:46 PM,
Anonymous said…
Are you hoping to reach 90 years of age? It seems as though you should being the old age runs on both sides of the family.
Being that she has lived to be ninety, what to do you think she remembers most or values most in her life?
At 4:33 PM,
pb said…
I don't know if I can answer all of that. I do hope that I can live a long full life as my grandparents have. If I were to speculate, I've not asked directly but, based on observation I would say that family is what is valued most by Grandma Lindberg, and that was clear with Grandpa Sorensen as well up until he died a year ago. Perhaps a good reminder for all of us to value our family and those closest to us. Not a bad lesson if you ask me.
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