Hey guys.....I am searching for words right now......yesterday, we unexpectedly lost my sister.....she has had a trach for quite awhile and yesterday during a coughing spell it completely broke apart (they don't know why yet) and they weren't able to save her.......this is hitting Niecey hard right now as she was very close to her (please keep her in prayer).....and following so closely on the heels of the loss of my sis-in-law....we are going to be ok.....but are still kind of in shock....we are at Niecey's daily appointment and her Doc is trying to contact the hospital up there to see if they can work it out for us to be able to go to Jacksonville for the funeral and do her daily count check ups at the hospital up there for a couple days.....I am praying this works out ....not sure if it will yet or not....but well....we are finding moments to smile and looking for rainbows.....even though right now they're small ones....talk to you all soon (((hugs)))


 

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Well the rumors are coming slow so far but we will find out soon enough...I must head out for right now...hubby is tapping his foot for me to get something ready for him to take to the post office....

Have a great day everyone...Be back later this afternoon....

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

gabriele wrote:

april6263 wrote:

Oh wow.....I bet he knew a lot about a lot of different things, he would have been awesome on Jeopardy   .........they will probably be considered antiques one day and could be  valuable.....even though to me just the sentimental value would be priceless for the memories of your dad

It is, April.  He offered it to my brother first who didn't want it...  But I knew he would be heartbroken to see it going to the dump.  My Dad didn't get much formal education as he fled (in the dark of the night...)  from the Russian occupied Eastern Germany just after the war and had to get through somehow on his own without family support.  I believe he was very intelligent nonetheless and something like the encyclopaedia quenched his thirst for knowledge.  Such different times...   I'm glad we are part of the easy information age now. 

(((hugs))) to you, April. 

I am late to this party since my daughter and 3 grandchildren are (mostly) here for the next week but I thought I would let you know, Gabriele, that we also are proud owners of a 1973 edition of Encyclopedia Britannicas---something like 24 volumes!!! I have often wondered what will happen to this set when we are no longer around because it was a staple in our household when our kids were growing up and it is, in many areas, as current and accurate (or perhaps more so in many ways) as it ever was. We used it extensively...and I still find myself looking things up in it now and then....particularly things of an historical nature!! The detail and completeness on many topics is incredible!! It came with a 3 volume Webster's unabridged dictionary which is still AWESOME....as well as a section in the 3rd book of common foreign words in 6 languages, including Yiddish!!

I find your father's story very endearing and can relate to it in many ways as my father came from a very poor family (however, without the horrors your family may have endured in Eastern Germany) in Chicago. He vowed early in his life to use his head rather than his back to support himself and his family so he highly valued education and certainly never stopped learning. I greatly admire people who are self-made and very often self-educated. They are usually "smarter" than most academic elites who seriously lack common sense or the ability to, figuratively, "put 2 and 2 together," as my mother would say!

There are organizations that will recycle these books by sending them to developing nations; unfortunately, I can't provide a name or phone number, but it can probably be found. I recycled my World Books by giving them to a co-worker from Turkey. Her two children most likely wouldn't want them in today's world. 
 

april6263 wrote:

Hey guys.....I am searching for words right now......yesterday, we unexpectedly lost my sister.....she has had a trach for quite awhile and yesterday during a coughing spell it completely broke apart (they don't know why yet) and they weren't able to save her.......this is hitting Niecey hard right now as she was very close to her (please keep her in prayer).....and following so closely on the heels of the loss of my sis-in-law....we are going to be ok.....but are still kind of in shock....we are at Niecey's daily appointment and her Doc is trying to contact the hospital up there to see if they can work it out for us to be able to go to Jacksonville for the funeral and do her daily count check ups at the hospital up there for a couple days.....I am praying this works out ....not sure if it will yet or not....but well....we are finding moments to smile and looking for rainbows.....even though right now they're small ones....talk to you all soon (((hugs)))



 

I am so, so sorry, April.  I have been and will continue to pray for you, for Niecey, and for your hubby and son.

"When my heart is overwhelmed within me, lead me to the rock that is higher than I." Psalm 61:2