Hot Coffee

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Year 2: Week 7.

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Though my Grandmother stopped farming years ago, she stayed very active. But, she always made time for coffee in the afternoon.

This meant an open invite for cookies and

very

hot coffee if you were around the farm. She could chat on a wide variety of topics and she gave great advice. The kind of advice that someone can only give after living through the Great Depression, two World Wars, cultural revolutions, the death of a husband, friends and family, and the raising of many, many children (2 of them hers).

The day after her funeral, I stopped by her house. The house I spent time at almost every day from the age 3 to 18. I took one of her oldest coffee mugs. Just about everyone who ever stopped at her house for coffee probably drank out of it. Many of her (and my) loved ones have used that little, yellow cup.

Clarice Vivian Hay. 1918-2011