Smiling through the clouds.

                I was always told that I would laugh at a dying dog, because it don't take much to make me laugh. My older brother, Durwin said, when I was born that when he and my older sister, Katherine went to look at me through the nursery window, my mom held me up so they could get a good look at me. The first thing I did was laugh at my brother. Until this day, I've been laughing at my older brother ever since. He can just look at me I will crack up.

              I remember cracking up in church as a child looking at the outlandish hats and furs that these women would wear and my grandmother would tell me "I was sining" because I wasn't paying attention to my lesson that the preacher was preaching. I couldn't help it because it was a distraction. Imagine as a child seeing ladies wearing Big Bird on their hat and Yogie Bear around their necks you would take a look too. Yes maam!!!

           Laughter is something that cleanse the soul which brings out happiness just like "Family". As a child I can't say my childhood was messed up because all the times that was spent together was all happy times even though we didn't have a lot of money but we had each other.

         I remember how my gradmother, the late Kate Brown would come up with games for us to play and have us use our imagination. My grandmother, made my sister and I a swing out of a tire and tied it around the fig tree branch we had in our backyard. My sister and I would take turns swinging in it until one day I wanted to go up higher and higher and higher, then the rope collapsed. Yeah, I broke it!!! Well I damn near broke alot of stuff when I was little.I swear my grandmother could make a game out of anything. All my siblings and I birthday parties would be a hit because of the different creative things she would come up with to keep us all occupied. She would always say, "A tired child won't give you no trouble". 

        I think about my grandmother everyday, and wonder what she is doing up in heaven with the angels because I know she has her wings, I've always thought she was a "bible genius" because she always knew what to say at the right time. She had a scripture to share when you felt you couldn't get through anything. She knew how to fix a broken person and make them whole again. Just like me, she didn't look at anyone as a stranger. When I look up at the cloud I smile because I know she is smiling back at me through the clouds. I feel like she has never left me because she was strong. I believe strong people's presence live a long time. Granny I long for and miss you. I love you!!!