This is a new post.
We are still grieving the passing of Rose Aldridge, Alison's mother, Benjamin's precious Mema.
Outside of our family, her contributions to the community were considerable. Working as an Editor and Columnist for the Blackshear Times, she was adept at straight news coverage and at writing humorous, relatable columns. She won many awards for her work.
She spent a decade working at Pierce County Schools, helping to highlight the significant achievements of a school system that was entering the ranks of the very best.
She did not keep her columns. We have found only a couple of her many awards.
I did find out that prior years of The Blackshear Times have been collected and bound. Her columns and news stories would be in those volumes. I am going to try to look through them and see if I can compile them and share them in some way.
I wish I had done this when she was physically with us.
Sometimes the worries and stress of our lives, our busyness, both real and manufactured, interfere with our time to preserve the best of what we do.
I also have considerable genealogical and biographical information from my father, hundreds of pages. I was posting some of it here, under the title "Stories From a Stony Land."
I haven't done that for a long time.
I need to get back to that.
The Strait Line may not be the perfect place to do it. Nevertheless, it lasts a long time. The computer uploads these blog posts to the cloud, and they are available for people to find and read.
The Strait Line is approaching 1.5 million views. Not Amazon numbers, but not nothing either.
My arthritis is better. I can sit at the computer a little bit longer. So, I hope to write about the present, dream about the future, and preserve the past.
The stories, the voice, and the compassion of those we loved need to be shared.
This is a new post.
A new post that is also a commitment to the old. Because the old is important. Not just to preserve, but to inspire and remember who we love and why we love them.
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