What is legacy? A Blog Off Post
Every two weeks, the blogosphere comes alive with some thing called a Blog Off. A Blog Off is an event where bloggers of each stripe weigh in on the equal subject matter on the equal day. The subject matter for this spherical of the Blog Off is "What is legacy?"
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These girls have been my grandmothers.
That's Marjorie Belle Pfahl-Anater on the left and Guellma Gevene Flowers-Smith-Stewart on the proper. I knew them as Gram A and Gram S, despite the fact that we typically known as Gram S by her middle call, Gevene. When I become younger I cherished Gram A for her mind and musical skills. I loved Gevene for her scrappy common feel and top humor.
Both of my grandmothers were widowed before I came alongside and I never knew my grandfathers.
But I knew these and the older I get the greater of them I see in me. My love of classical music is natural Marjorie and my incapacity to suffer fools is pure Gevene. That's legacy. A legacy of a sort.
For me, the legacy a person leaves is the story of their lives. My grandmothers led lives of excessive highs and low lows, similar to all and sundry else does. Both of these girls treated adversity, survived the deaths of youngsters and husbands, and witnessed the great, tumultuous adjustments that defined the 20th Century.
I grew up listening to a variety of their tales and to me, the ones testimonies are their finest legacy. Those girls were not just static characters in a photograph album, they have been actual human beings. I study that image above and I can pay attention Gevene's snort and Marjorie's "Good glory!"
I think that people live on when their descendants tell their stories and pass along their legacy. My nieces and nephews, who number in the dozens, never knew those women as the forces of nature they were. But I did. I knew them and I feel like it's my job, my obligation, to those two great women to tell their stories to their great-grandchildren.
In telling those stories, in passing along those legacies, I keep my grandmothers alive for just a little while longer. And not only that, I reinforce (at least I hope I do) that my nieces and nephewsbelong. In the act of telling, I get to remind myself the same thing.
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