“Love and death are the two great gifts we have to pass on --- and too often we pass them on unopened.”

That quote is from the Bill Moyers video series called “Dying Well”. June 4 will be the fourth and last of the four Wednesday sessions sponsored by the Auxiliary.

Three or four residents have made one or more of them and have found them very worthwhile. NOT DEPRESSING! Quite the opposite.

If you would like to see them privately or with friends, check with Chris Smith or Kathy Hinkle. Saint Simeon's owns the series and has made it available.

Our nomination for “May Queen” in 2004 is Ruth Anderson.

She was the May Day sprite who surprised the Hennekes with a May Basket. When she was a child she always found a May Basket on her bedroom door. Her mother's May Day surprise for her --- no wander Ruth is an endlessly giving person!

“The morning sunlight caught upon a bough is stored against the young leaves' need for gold in autumn”
   -- Anonymous

Rezzy finished High School in 1929. Just before the Great Depression. (none of us thought it was so “great” back then. Trust me!!!)

It was a school far from here and, since most of my life has been lived here, a “class re-union” has been nothing I've ever know of - much less got back to! But the daughter of a High School friend had just sent me a copy of a newspaper clipping from 1949 that she'd found in her mother's files …. “Seems like yesterday”.

There were forty of us in that class out of the 100 who had entered in the fall of 1925. Nobody worried about the “drop-out rate” of 60%. That class of 1929 was the largest class ever graduated from that high school!

We all knew that everybody didn't need to finish high school! We knew the world needed tailors and bricklayers, bookbinders and mailmen, people to work in the rug mill or to run grocery stores or be shoemakers. Everybody didn't want to be a typist or a nurse or schoolteacher!

I think out of the forty of us only four or five wanted to go to college or normal school.

Few of us thought our future promised more than another. They were just different.

The depression years ahead were what taught each of us just how different that could be!

Open question: Anybody want to talk about the “good old days”?

Write REZZY DENT about
sights and sounds
you notice here
at Saint Simeon's!