tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post7414953423454611592..comments2024-03-28T15:05:10.372-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: My grandmaNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-45094947499582082712014-04-13T09:35:01.241-05:002014-04-13T09:35:01.241-05:00Thanks Bill -- no, I haven't -- where is it? I...Thanks Bill -- no, I haven't -- where is it? I'd like to see it. And thanks for the edit. If readers don't edit this, nobody does, I try, but certain errors fly by the author. As long as it's done in a matter of fact fashion. What irks me is when readers make correcting a typo into an exercise in scenery-chewing ("I would THINK that a writer as SUPPOSEDLY erudite as yourself would KNOW the difference between 'heal," to cure, and 'heel,' the BALL of one's FOOT!!!!!"Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-32311683421745195922014-04-12T21:36:36.473-05:002014-04-12T21:36:36.473-05:00Neil
Great stories. Dunno if you ever saw what Da...Neil<br />Great stories. Dunno if you ever saw what Dan wrote about our grandmothers, but let's just say that pabulum is no the only option, and honesty is always the best.<br /><br />And so: hard on the heels, not heals. Gotta edit, cannot help myself.<br />BillBill Savagehttp://chicagobydayandnight.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-39706818408279406972014-04-12T21:34:36.602-05:002014-04-12T21:34:36.602-05:00Beautiful.Beautiful.Bill Savagehttp://chicagobydayandnight.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-47779039078787907762014-04-12T16:49:43.588-05:002014-04-12T16:49:43.588-05:00Thanks Neil. Grandparents fade away as one ages, b...Thanks Neil. Grandparents fade away as one ages, but your piece brought back my little Welsh "nain," who died when I was quite young, but evidently not before infecting me with her love of letters and addiction to the sweeness of of learning. She taught me to read, pre-school, wrote poetry in Welsh and took a scholarly interest in history, particularly the "war between the states," knowing all about Chancellorsville and Second Bull Run and cherishing the timeless rhetoric of "Mr. Lincoln." After she died I learned about the hardships she endured as a young widow raising five children on a meagre, depression-era, salary and of the people she helped in her job as a social worker. I know where she's buried but never go there, which brings to mind the lovely sendoff George Eliot gave Dorothea Brooke in the concluding lines of "Middlemarch."<br /> "Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-87370766474631215042014-04-12T16:42:42.406-05:002014-04-12T16:42:42.406-05:00Right you are, Roy. Thanks. Fixed now.Right you are, Roy. Thanks. Fixed now.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-61455020185600057602014-04-12T11:51:34.548-05:002014-04-12T11:51:34.548-05:00I think it was Readers Digest Condensed (not Abrid...I think it was Readers Digest Condensed (not Abridged) Books wasn't it? My family accumulated dozens of them as wellRoy Smithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-68053407518293510352014-04-12T10:00:50.082-05:002014-04-12T10:00:50.082-05:00One of my grandmothers subscribed to the Reader...One of my grandmothers subscribed to the Reader's Digest, and I spent many happy hours pouring over the back issues she kept neatly in a cabinet (with a glass front, such as you might see for legal books) ordered by date. She bought me my own subscription when I was in about the 6th grade. I shocked when one of my high school teachers was horrified by thought of anyone reading the Reader's Digest, but I received it - and read it - until my grandmother declined too much to be to continue to send it. My other grandmother was college graduate, a pianist, and a working woman. She took the El to downtown and worked in an office for many years while my grandfather taught school and coached in a suburb. I think I am most like my father's mother (the Chicago working woman), but both of them were very important to me. And we lived overseas for most of my youth. Although, I saw them very infrequently, but the impact is still there. One has been gone for 34 years and the other for 26. I miss them terribly.Bludoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18131740899428934800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-53491073496778801882014-04-12T07:20:59.917-05:002014-04-12T07:20:59.917-05:00Thanks for sharing. I am now a grandmother and ho...Thanks for sharing. I am now a grandmother and hope I can achieve those same feelings from my grand kids some day.<br />grammamoAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04908502383188539702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-54568822583794310782014-04-12T05:49:55.226-05:002014-04-12T05:49:55.226-05:00Thank you Neil, that was beautiful.
We may just ge...Thank you Neil, that was beautiful.<br />We may just get healthier if schmaltz replaced hydrogenated oils...<br />JulianJulian Sibonyhttp://www.juliansibony.comnoreply@blogger.com