Blue

Tuesday - March 10, 2009

Blue

The color of my true loves eyes;
The color of the sky:
The color for a baby boy
Or the color of a brand new toy

The very strong and the oh so weak,
Will sometimes require the need to speak
About the trials they have endured,
And the recovery we are all assured.

Now a life that is brand new
One of which can cause me to be blue
Upbeat we must always try and stay
Dink will hopefully recover in a matter of days.

So keep the chin up and always smile,
As he works so hard all the while.
Dink will be back as good as new
All because of prayers coming from you.

The last time I mentioned a color it was pink. Pink represents the color associated with our grand-baby who should be arriving by the end of the month. Pink represents the little girl we are waiting on to arrive. This above all things brightens my day.

Blue is representative for a baby boy, but in this posting it is the feeling I have had for well over a month! This may be attributed to the fact I am a year older and didn't have my twin around to share this with; and some of it is associated with what my oldest brother is going through. This stroke and heart attack has knocked him down, and he is trying his best to get back. I am not blue about his progress - he is doing well to have suffered the type of stroke he had plus a heart attack on top of that.

The blue feeling comes from watching him struggle to relearn what he once could do without thinking. He is is working hard to learn to walk and talk. He is now putting phrases together - sometimes they still don't make sense to us - but apparently they do to him!

He loves getting cards. I am sending or taking him a card daily. Each one has a riddle. In the beginning he didn't understand. The riddles are read to him; he says he doesn't know the answer; but when he hears the answer, he laughs. We pray that he understands what is being said. HE so loves opening these cards himself! He has started looking at them as if he is reading what each one says. I am now printing our names and comments on the cards - we're not sure if he can read the cursive!

A couple of weeks ago I asked that any and all who could to please send him a card or two. Some of you have and I thank you! I guess I am a little blue because I thought he would be swamped with cards - guess there are not as many who read the blog as I thought. I will continue sending him a card - even when he gets home. He smiles and seems to be so pleased that others are remembering him and praying for him!

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I am going to include the first ten riddles I've sent Dink. Let's see how many you can figure out - better yet send Dink a note to let him know what you think the answers are!

1. I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody.

2. What goes around the house and in the house but never touches the house?

3. What is that you can keep after giving it to someone else?

4. What walks all day on its head?

5. What gets wet when drying?

6. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

7. What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up?

8. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

9. He who has it doesn't tell it. He who takes it doesn't know it. He who knows it doesn't want it. What is it?

10. Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son.