Name Draw Time Again - GG

Compassionate
Loving
Would give the shirt off her back
Hospitable
Kind
Way Smarter than she thinks
Animal Lover
Great Dancer (she doesn't remember that I've seen her dance!)
The best imaginable example to me
Selfless
Incredible Cook
Talented Artist
Involved Grandmother
So Fun!

Gayle is one of those people who confirm to me that God loves me beyond measure. You may ask why. Not because Gayle tells me that God loves me. But because, just by the simple fact that she is in my life, I know God loves me. You see God sent her to me and my family some 26 or so years ago.

In the early 1980s, Ed and I had just recently moved to Nashville. We were very young parents with no family nor friends here. I worked with Gayle at that time. She pretty much adopted us and our children as her own and went about caring for us, supporting us, chastising us (when we needed it), feeding us, encouraging us, and generally just loving us.

If you were able to gather all of the people that Gayle has known in her life into one HUGE gymnasium and polled them to ask for one or two words that would convey Gayle's character, I am certain two words you would hear again and again would be giving and kind.

It is amazing how many people she has helped, served, and loved during her life. Gayle embodies a saying that someone recently introduced me to - Love Wins. And love wins because of people like Gayle who are Christlike in the manner in which they serve and care for others.

I love her more than she will ever know.

Must See TV!

I grew up in a time before TV was garbage. In the 1960s and 1970s, television watching was a family activity. Some of my favorite shows were The Brady Bunch, Starsky and Hutch (the REAL one), Streets of San Francisco, The Flip Wilson Show, Family Affair, I Dream of Jeanie, Bewitched, American Bandstand, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda - gosh so many.

Here's a clip from a particularly stellar example of 1970's television production. The show was called Sigmund and Sea Monsters. Watch and be awed:



What were some of your favorite television shows?

Do you remember the words to the song from your favorite show?

Here's one to get you started:

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship
The mate was a mighty sailing man
The skipper, brave and sure
Five passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour,
A three hour tour.

The weather started getting rough.
The tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew,
The Minnow would be lost.
The Minnow would be lost.

The ship set shore on the shore of this uncharted desert isle,
With Gilligan
The Skipper too.
The Millionaire, and his wife.
The Movie Star
The Professor
And Mary Ann.

Here on Gilligan's Isle.

Yep, remembered all those words myself!

You post one.

Whew - big, long break.



Tattoos. I just don't get them. I mean I don't understand them. And no, I won't "get" them either.



Now don't get me wrong. I am not judging anyone who has one. I used to. Tacky is what I used to call them. I don't know that I still think they are tacky. Maybe I do (if I'm being honest). But I don't think the people who get them are tacky people.

But honestly, why PERMANANTLY do anything to your body (outside of something medically necessary)? I have to wonder, are people who get a tattoo individuals who have never, one time in their lives, changed their mind about something?

Have you loved every haircut you've ever had? (Hair grows)
Have you never had buyer's remorse? (Most stores have a 90 day return policy - or at the very worst, you can earn more money to replace money foolishly spent)
Have you never thought (about ANYthing) "Dangit, that was a stupid choice."

If the answer is yes, to any of these questions, why in the world PERMANENTLY alter your body unnecessarily? Seriously.

Someone talk me out of this staunch opposition I have to tattoos. Give me one good reason for getting one.

Maybe mine will say, "Waddie".