Sunday, July 17, 2005
Welcome
This blog details my grandfather's journey to his passing. It begins on Bastille Day, 1988, when he was he was hospitalized with pneumonia. A few days later, the pneumonia was discovered to pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, or PCP.
My grandfather was not a religious man but he was both very spiritual and practical. While raised in the Episcopal church, he eventually drifted away from organized religion. He and my grandmother both shared the same view on religion: nice idea in theory, but it limits ones relationship with God. In my grandmother's case, her views were shaped in large part by her Lenape grandmother.
You'll get to know Benny and Esther in the upcoming entries. If you come away with just one impression of them, let it be this: through all the hardships and joys they faced in life, they always knew they would face it together, with perservance and dedication and love for one another.
I have no doubt their love continues.
My grandfather was not a religious man but he was both very spiritual and practical. While raised in the Episcopal church, he eventually drifted away from organized religion. He and my grandmother both shared the same view on religion: nice idea in theory, but it limits ones relationship with God. In my grandmother's case, her views were shaped in large part by her Lenape grandmother.
You'll get to know Benny and Esther in the upcoming entries. If you come away with just one impression of them, let it be this: through all the hardships and joys they faced in life, they always knew they would face it together, with perservance and dedication and love for one another.
I have no doubt their love continues.
