PORCH PONDERINGS

Sad News

We got a good deal of snow over 2 days. Probably 4-5 inches here in town. And with the snow, cold temperatures. Single digits for highs and below zero for nighttime lows. Today it was nice, sunny and bright. I walked about the two days of snow, no problem. And again today, no problem. Glad for those who shoveled their walks. But if they didn't, I just walked in the street.

Sad news yesterday for me. A friend I know, from Ohio like me, and goes to my church, died in his sleep. Now, this man had fallen years ago from a construction site, he was a steelworker. Multiple injuries he recovered from, although in pain most of the time. Great person, married to a wonderful woman. They moved here a few years ago from California- bought land. Have a great house, lots of pampered animals. Horses, cows, chickens, llamas, goats, you name it.

Well, according to his wife, he fell and hit his head on concrete earlier in the day. But, no complaint of headache, no complaint of anything. He went to bed as usual. She woke in the morning to find him dead beside her.

Sad, but then as I thought about it, he is okay. No more pain. Just slipped away. I think the fall and hitting his head did it. Probably suffered a brain bleed. The pain is his family left behind. His wife, adult children and grandchildren. A death as sudden and as unexpected as this is shocking.

So I guess the lesson is you never know when you will breathe your last. Could be today, tonight, or tomorrow. Or it could be decades from now.

Take care.