Memories

Memories are like history there is good and bad. We have good and bad memories too and we have to treat them as what they are memories. It is alright to look back , but wanting thing that you thought were so good will never come again or be fearful of the bad and not want to face the present and future.

That being said Micki and I had a chance to go down memories last week. We went and visited an old friend Mildred. What so wonderful about her is she is eighthly three and is still enjoying life like a youngster. Here is the story. Mildred was our families business first employee in our new Connecticut office which was opened in 1952. I had nothing to do with hiring her because I was just a young boy it was my mother and dad. And when I think of it I really think it was my mother. Here is why.

Mildred said she was twenty nine and married with two girls that where at an age with watchful eye of her mother Mildred could get a job. Mildred was looking in the want ads and saw this ad “Wanted a middle age woman that can type and do office work.” Mildred was only twenty nine but she answered that ad anyways. She spoke with my mother over the phone and everything went will then just before the phone call ended Mildred told my mother that she was twenty nine. I guess my mother though that she was middle age because she hired her and Mildred stated with the company till she retired at sixty two.

While we had lunch last week Mildred, Micki and I went down memory lane and it made us all feel good. When we left her we both gave her a big hug and a kiss and said we we’re look forward to visiting her again. Mildred still lives in Connecticut but spend s a couple months in Florida in the winter. And that is went we visit her.
Mildred is quiet an avid sports fan, particularly the University of Conn. Basketball teams. At her apartment complex they cannot see Conn. Basketball if it is on ESPN U so Mildred and a friend go down to Duffy’s Tavern and watch the game. I thing that is just great two ladies in their eighties go in to Duffy’s pull up a chair and order chardonnay and watch the Connecticut girls win another game.

That story is what memories are made of. Go out today and make some of your own wonderful memories.

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