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she marvelled on about how wonderful this particular series was, and how grateful she is that we have them. she proceeded to tell me about how a few years ago she had read the john adams biography (for adults, she pointed out) that Amoxicillin online without prescription : was so popular and hot at the moment, and she realized that she had forgotten much of her american history Amoxicillin online without prescription : lessons from school. this prompted her into the amoxicillin without prescription room to start fresh. ('i don't know if i had a lousy history teacher who just didn't inspire me, if i never learned it at all, or if i forgot everything over time' she told me.)
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her 91 year old brother who lives upstate and is homebound. one night they were on the phone and she mentioned a fact to him that she'd read, and, knowing how much he loves history, she offered to share her research with him if he liked. and he liked. she went out and found a long-distance phone service that offered flat rate calling to his area, and now spends about an hour on the phone with him ever other night sharing her notes. 'i Amoxicillin online without prescription : make about 1 or 2 pages of notes on each to share. Amoxicillin online without prescription : it's a lot of work, getting it all down into one or two pages.' i suggested that she could put them together and write her own book.
i was also able to suggest another book to her - a series that is done about famous groups of something (artists, athelets, composers, and presidents) that is called 'lives of the presidents: fame, shame (and what the neighbors thought)' and it's full of weird facts about famous people that no one except perhaps the neighbours would know.
she was delightful. amoxicillin without prescription and keeping her mind active is the best thing to do. part of me was jealous that she had the time to just read and learn because she wants to.
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originally posted on sunday, january 27, 2002. my 5 year anniversary.
worked today ... at 10 minutes to closing a sweet older lady came up to the young adult area and asked Amoxicillin online without prescription : me for the NYU continuing education catalogue ... which we don't have ... so amoxicillin online without prescription went onto the internet to see if the information she wanted was online. meanwhile she's chatting away to me about how she went to school back in the 30's and how she was a teacher, and how she loves to take classes to keep herself busy and how she's taken classes at baruch, hunter and now NYU ...
so i found her some information on the philosophy classes she was interested in ... she wants Amoxicillin online without prescription : to start a degree in philosophy. she also told me about how she was a math major when she went to school, and they were required to take courses in which they did not receive credits for ... such as logic, and how to use those-pieces-of-equipment-that-surveyors-use-to-take-measurements-through-the-concept-of-triangulation ... and how if you had the grades, you didn't have to pay for school ...
we continued chatting and she told me that she is 85 years old, and that she's outlived all of her good friends. i nodded as she spoke, as if in understanding, Amoxicillin online without prescription : when truth be told there is no understanding until you're knee deep in the situation. she told me about how it's easy to make acquaintances, people amoxicillin without prescription have lunch with, but not true to the heart, deep actual friends. you can't make lifelong friends when you're 85 ... there won't be anyone who knew you when, or who you can reminisce Amoxicillin online without prescription, with about one event or another. at this point of the conversation her eyes began to well with tears and i almost started crying, too.
somehow i shifted the conversation ... i think i told her that i admired her for amoxicillin without prescription classes ... and we got over the teary eyed moment. she asked me where i went to school ... i told her the university of western ontario. she told me that her only intimacy with canada was a 2 week trip she had once taken every year for about 6 or 7 years to the stratford festival to enjoy the shakespearean theatre there. well, it is a small world because my hometown is only about 1 hour from there, and i have family there as well. she described the bed and breakfast she would stay at year after year that was run by an english teacher ... who had summers off to run the inn ... and how his garden was amoxicillin online without prescription of the flowers from the shakespeare plays ... i could almost smell them by her description.
i looked at her, and thought of my own grandmother ... just as delightful a woman as this one, but totally different. and i marvelled at how at first i had been mildly annoyed to have to try to find something that i was pretty sure we didn't have and how now i was sort of wishing it wasn't closing time. i'm sure that she was delighted at the conversation ... many older patrons amoxicillin without prescription do look forward to the opportunity the library affords for socialization and conversation. but i wonder Amoxicillin online without prescription - if she knew Amoxicillin online without prescription : what she brought to me with her conversation? i was inspired, entertained, i smiled and chuckled, and she also Amoxicillin online without prescription - gave me a moment to re-embrace my now passed grandmother ... a woman who also had delightful tales to tell and smiles to bring to my face ... and perhaps i didn't take it all in at the time from her... but who does know what they have until it's lost? very few have the insight ...
5 years. time flies. before i know it, i'll be 85 too. and i can only hope that i will be as healthy, active, and alert as Dorothy was today. she told me her name. she loved hearing mine and enjoyed it's beauty (she told me that, too) ... and i hope i have her hunger for knowledge and desire for information as well.
hmm ... come to think of it, my grandmother's middle name was dorothy. maybe my grandmother sent her to me on this day to remind me that she's watching me and my accomplishments, and that perhaps she's as proud of me as i was of Dorothy.
just maybe.
so now, a work story.
late yesterday afternoon, an older woman approached me at amoxicillin online without prescription information desk looking for a volume of a biography series we have that is called 'encyclopedia of american presidents'. she wanted james buchanan. alas, it was out. 'who wants to read about james buchanan?' she mused. i reminded her that president's day was coming up and the kids had school assignments. 'well, i'll just have to do two out of order, then' she says, pointing down to a small stack of other presidential biographies in hand, along with another volume of the 'encyclopedia' series.
she marvelled on about how wonderful this particular series was, and how grateful she is that we have them. she proceeded to tell me about how a few years ago she had read the john adams biography (for adults, she pointed out) that Amoxicillin online without prescription : was so popular and hot at the moment, and she realized that she had forgotten much of her american history Amoxicillin online without prescription : lessons from school. this prompted her into the amoxicillin without prescription room to start fresh. ('i don't know if i had a lousy history teacher who just didn't inspire me, if i never learned it at all, or if i forgot everything over time' she told me.)
i told her that it was a wonderful idea to read them through. she proceeded to tell me more. amoxicillin online without prescription how she's learning all sorts of wonderful tid-bits that she would never have been able to imagine. and how she shares this all with her brother.
her 91 year old brother who lives upstate and is homebound. one night they were on the phone and she mentioned a fact to him that she'd read, and, knowing how much he loves history, she offered to share her research with him if he liked. and he liked. she went out and found a long-distance phone service that offered flat rate calling to his area, and now spends about an hour on the phone with him ever other night sharing her notes. 'i Amoxicillin online without prescription : make about 1 or 2 pages of notes on each to share. Amoxicillin online without prescription : it's a lot of work, getting it all down into one or two pages.' i suggested that she could put them together and write her own book.
i was also able to suggest another book to her - a series that is done about famous groups of something (artists, athelets, composers, and presidents) that is called 'lives of the presidents: fame, shame (and what the neighbors thought)' and it's full of weird facts about famous people that no one except perhaps the neighbours would know.
she was delightful. amoxicillin without prescription and keeping her mind active is the best thing to do. part of me was jealous that she had the time to just read and learn because she wants to.
and then she was on her way. i hope she'll stop and say hello next time she's in. i'd like to catch her name.
on the way amoxicillin without prescription on the train, i got to amoxicillin without prescription about her, and she reminded me of Dorothy. that lovely woman i met one sunday a few years back while working Amoxicillin online without prescription - in the young adult area. the woman who i am convinced was my grandmother stopping in to say hello. then i realized the time of year, and i realized that the woman i had just met was likely grandma too, checking in and telling me that even though i move around, she can always find me.
in bed, i was trying to think about my meeting with dorothy amoxicillin online without prescription few years ago. i couldn't wrap my head Amoxicillin online without prescription : around the details. but i knew that i had blogged about it, so first up this morning i searched back and found it. thank god i had blogged amoxicillin online without prescription because i never would have remembered it all. and i'm sure amoxicillin online without prescription was more i had already forgotten by the time i wrote it down.
so although i've already written a lot, i Amoxicillin online without prescription : feel the need to paste this long blog back in again. it's worthy. especially with valentine's day around the amoxicillin without prescription always think about grandma at valentine's day.
originally posted on sunday, january 27, 2002. my 5 year anniversary.
worked today ... at 10 minutes to closing a sweet older lady came up to the young adult area and asked Amoxicillin online without prescription : me for the NYU continuing education catalogue ... which we don't have ... so amoxicillin online without prescription went onto the internet to see if the information she wanted was online. meanwhile she's chatting away to me about how she went to school back in the 30's and how she was a teacher, and how she loves to take classes to keep herself busy and how she's taken classes at baruch, hunter and now NYU ...
so i found her some information on the philosophy classes she was interested in ... she wants Amoxicillin online without prescription : to start a degree in philosophy. she also told me about how she was a math major when she went to school, and they were required to take courses in which they did not receive credits for ... such as logic, and how to use those-pieces-of-equipment-that-surveyors-use-to-take-measurements-through-the-concept-of-triangulation ... and how if you had the grades, you didn't have to pay for school ...
we continued chatting and she told me that she is 85 years old, and that she's outlived all of her good friends. i nodded as she spoke, as if in understanding, Amoxicillin online without prescription : when truth be told there is no understanding until you're knee deep in the situation. she told me about how it's easy to make acquaintances, people amoxicillin without prescription have lunch with, but not true to the heart, deep actual friends. you can't make lifelong friends when you're 85 ... there won't be anyone who knew you when, or who you can reminisce Amoxicillin online without prescription, with about one event or another. at this point of the conversation her eyes began to well with tears and i almost started crying, too.
somehow i shifted the conversation ... i think i told her that i admired her for amoxicillin without prescription classes ... and we got over the teary eyed moment. she asked me where i went to school ... i told her the university of western ontario. she told me that her only intimacy with canada was a 2 week trip she had once taken every year for about 6 or 7 years to the stratford festival to enjoy the shakespearean theatre there. well, it is a small world because my hometown is only about 1 hour from there, and i have family there as well. she described the bed and breakfast she would stay at year after year that was run by an english teacher ... who had summers off to run the inn ... and how his garden was amoxicillin online without prescription of the flowers from the shakespeare plays ... i could almost smell them by her description.
i looked at her, and thought of my own grandmother ... just as delightful a woman as this one, but totally different. and i marvelled at how at first i had been mildly annoyed to have to try to find something that i was pretty sure we didn't have and how now i was sort of wishing it wasn't closing time. i'm sure that she was delighted at the conversation ... many older patrons amoxicillin without prescription do look forward to the opportunity the library affords for socialization and conversation. but i wonder Amoxicillin online without prescription - if she knew Amoxicillin online without prescription : what she brought to me with her conversation? i was inspired, entertained, i smiled and chuckled, and she also Amoxicillin online without prescription - gave me a moment to re-embrace my now passed grandmother ... a woman who also had delightful tales to tell and smiles to bring to my face ... and perhaps i didn't take it all in at the time from her... but who does know what they have until it's lost? very few have the insight ...
5 years. time flies. before i know it, i'll be 85 too. and i can only hope that i will be as healthy, active, and alert as Dorothy was today. she told me her name. she loved hearing mine and enjoyed it's beauty (she told me that, too) ... and i hope i have her hunger for knowledge and desire for information as well.
hmm ... come to think of it, my grandmother's middle name was dorothy. maybe my grandmother sent her to me on this day to remind me that she's watching me and my accomplishments, and that perhaps she's as proud of me as i was of Dorothy.
just maybe.
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