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Our hearts go out to Rob and his family in their loss.

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Best wishes and prayers to Rob, his Mom and Dad, the rest of their family.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Sorry for your loss Rob…

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God bless her so much! I am so sorry for your families loss.

Sincerest condolences, Rob.

Thanks everyone for your kind words.  She was an amazing woman who, until the last four months, was a young 91 going on “49”.  She fought a hard battle but lost it to breast cancer that metastasized to very painful bone cancer.  You can all help by supporting cancer research.  I took her to her treatments and to her cancer support group and found that cancer is no respecter of age, sex, life.  It strikes babies, grandmas, moms, dads, sisters, brothers.  No one is safe from this horrific disease.

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Sincerest condolences, Rob.

Very sorry to hear about your grandmother, Rob.

Condolences to you Rob and your family. Celebrate her life to ease the pain of loss.

I’ll say a prayer.  Stay strong Bro.

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Our Prayers & thoughts go to you & yours, Rob.

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I am sorry to read this news. No passing is ever easy for the ones left behind.

I look forward to the next time you call me boob.

Excuse me, you were saying?

Thanks for the kind words everyone.  She left us late last night, and it was bittersweet.  Bitter because, as childish as it may sound, I’m going to miss my grandma.  Sweet because she was in a lot of pain, and to watch her relax and find peace was a burden off of my heart.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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There is nothing childish in that, Rob… and you are your grandmom’s legacy. Find peace.

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

The times, they are a-changin’...
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...it was bittersweet.  Bitter because, as childish as it may sound, I’m going to miss my grandma.  Sweet because she was in a lot of pain, and to watch her relax and find peace was a burden off of my heart.

We should all be so blessed to be cherished this way at the end of our journey!

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Rob, I am sorry to hear of your loss.

My family will keep you and yours in prayers during your time of grief.

Celebrate her life.

Our deepest condolences, Rob. No words can help the pain, I know, because I have gone through this with my Grandmother, Father, and Stepfather. You just got to keep on keeping on, like she taught you.

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Bummer. That sucks man. Sending prayers and good thoughts.

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My condolences Rob, I think I can speak for everyone on Say Anything when we say that you, and your kin are in our thoughts and prayers.

Stay strong.

"Experience… that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” -CS Lewis

Rob mentioned his grandmother was 91 years old.  Just think of the things she saw in her lifetime: the invention of radio, television, the internet; widespread use of automobiles; two world wars; man reaching space; heck...women having the right to vote!

In this time of sorrow for them, I hope Rob and his family celebrate every minute of this woman’s life.

I’m amazed by what she saw in her life too.  She remembered her father farming with horse teams, and going to school in a horse-drawn sleigh with heated bricks in the bottom to help keep them warm.

She also remembers her grandson being able to write for an audience of thousands while sitting in his living room in his pajamas.

I used to help her get on the internet and exchange recipes on a forum.  She was sharp as a tack right up to the end.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

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She remembered her father farming with horse teams, and going to school in a horse-drawn sleigh with heated bricks in the bottom to help keep them warm.

Cool. Its amazing how time and stories pile up inside us to make us who we are.

My last grandparent died about five years ago. I inherited his blacksmiths hammers, many an amazing story, and a simple ability to work hard and keep on going, no matter what. When his WWII buddies were folding the flag, the sun broke through the clouds and warmed us on a dreary Maine afternoon.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

You know you’re old when things that happened when you were in college now require archeological digs to prove they happened.  A case in point was a recent trip to Sandia Labs, where we drove past the place where the US ICBMs were being dismantled as part of the 1970-era SALT II treaty.  There used to be buildings, a railroad, cranes and other stuff placed there to accommodate this process.

Now it’s just a large grassy area surrounded by a barbed fence (by the looks, the fence is original, I think, it just was never taken down probably because this part of Sandia is still classified as restricted access even though it’s basically a football field now). 

Seeing that bare grass and no sign of anything else, including the railway, is a sure sign that that time is creeping forward on one…

I was driving out west on highway two a couple weeks ago.  I thought it was funny that a farmer was using the fence around an old Minuteman III site to park his old equipment in.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

In her lifetime she saw in person Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.  Truman was going through her home town on a train.  He spoke to the locals from the back of the train.  She’s read by candlelight, oil lamps, kerosene lamps and electric lights.  Her house growing up was heated by coal and wood.  She told the story of how the first winter of her marriage was so bitterly cold that my Dad got bales of hay and piled them around the foundation to keep out the cold.  My Dad said he knew it worked when he came home and found she’d taken off her boots.  She began working at age 11 cooking in a cook shack for a crew of threshers. She was an amazing woman.

When the family is all together, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, we often have this conversation. The vast and life altering changes our grandparents and greatgrandparents lived through.

I am glad that she passed on so much of her experiences to y’all. Too often, anymore, that is not happening.

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She must have been a really great person to have a grandson like Rob. God bless your family so much!