A DAY IN A LIFE
" I heard the news today...the news was rather sad." Lennon/McCartney On this day years ago, September 26th, it was a bright blue beautiful day. As I walked to get the bus for school, I saw my grandfather, George Frawley, and said, "See you after school." He waved and shouted, "Ammonia and pneumonia!" Just about everyday he challenged me to learn to spell two new words. But that was the last time I would see him. When I got home from school, he wasn't home. So I sat on his front porch and did my homework. As I waited, he was deep in the woods across the street - standing on a stonewall, a rope in his hands - suicide. The next morning my parents told me that my best friend, my hero, the man I called Grampa was dead. On that afternoon I had dreams of the days and years ahead with my grandfather - and in an instant all dreams were shattered. And I have wondered to this day, if he knew that morning that his wave was a final goodbye? But what remains ...