Re: [MMM] why we do wht we do.......

That's wonderful, Dan, and an amazing picture. Thanks for
sharing this. I also had wonderful grandparents (on my mother's
side) who watched me a lot as a kid. I feel really lucky to
have had this connection to our past in a way that some people
don't seem to have had.

-Carl

At 12:28 PM 1/9/2007, you wrote:
>I guess we all tend to over-romanticize our heroes a bit, but anyone
>who knows me well enough for any amount of time will tell you that my
>biggest hero was my grandmother...and the influence she had on my life
>needs no exaggerating….my love of nature didn't come in the front
>door, it came in the back window, and as a kid I spent countless hours
>at my grandmother's farms climbing in and out of that window . My
>grandmother was also the only adult i ever met as a child who still
>had the magic of youth and innocence as her predominant
>characteristic, and this calm soothed me in a way nothing else ever
>has. She was a farm girl from an early age; a big, lean and mean
>Swede, and man was she was strong ! In fact, she was something of a
>local folkhero as she could and would routinely arm wrestle her son's
>behemoth football schoolmates into submission until they were at the
>back end of high school:
>
>http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c33/danstearns/mygrandparents1.jpg
>
>(remember, that thing she's holding on her back like a 5 lbs backpack,
>at nearly 50 years old, is a full-grown man )
>
>When she died two summers ago she left a hole in my life no one could
>ever fill . I miss her very bad, and the world could use a lot more of
>her stock .Someday i hope to write something befitting the influence
>she had on me and the course my life has taken.
>
>http://www.myspace.com/danstearns