Some days just make you smile
Living in this time of economic instability and shooting of innocent people, we need a day that puts a smile on our faces. I had such a day recently. It may not be important to anyone else but me but thought I would share it with you.
Being over sixty, most of the people I knew as a child that were in my parents age group have passed away. I was surprised when a friend told me the women who was our hair dresser when we were young is still alive! I thought she would be in a nursing home. Boy was I wrong! She is lucid, walking around, going to church, and to the senior citizen center, to which she drives! Now I want to be like her when I grow up.
I called this wonderful woman up and we had the most delightful conversation. She remembered me. We shared stories from some fifty years ago. I was able to thank her for treating me like a little grownup while she pressed my hair with those dreaded hot combs! She sometimes burned the tips of my ears but that was the price Black women of all ages paid to look good back then! What a joy it was to step back in time and talk to an ancestor who was a role model for the young Black women of my time.
To Mrs. Mae McCorkle, I thank you for being a wonderful inspiration and role model. Stay well we still need you!!!
August 11th, 2010 at 8:29 am
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August 25th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Thank you Ernest .Your remarks made me smile.