If God had intended us to follow recipes, he wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.~ Linda Henley
Discover Magazine has a compelling article about the influences our forebears play on the genes of the brain. Check out this article which gives testimony to whether we grow up to be resilient people or not.
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences-leave-epigenetic-mark-on-your-genes.
Isn’t it funny the things we remember from our childhood? Memories of arriving at my grandmother’s house contain nothing but sweet nourishment within. Her crystal candy dish on the buffet table in the dining room was the first place we’d head after we left her arms of welcoming love.
When my siblings and I take trips down memory lane, we often talk about the candies that could be dependably found in our grandmother’s vessel that held confections. Dependably, the candy dish was filled to the top in anticipation of our coming. Butter mints, spearmint leaves, fruit jellies, nonpareils were among our favorites. And then there was the other candy dish on the coffee table in her living room – that always held the hard candies – such as the candy fruit straws (I wasn’t so fond of those), hard sour balls, old fashioned ribbon candy at Christmas, raspberry hard candy with the soft centers and, of course, my favorite – lemon drops.
Just thinking about them all is enough to make my mouth water. There was never any limit to how many candies we ate. In fact, my Grandmother was consumed with the thought that we might leave her home without full bellies, and fed us until even our eyes were bulging.
My mother is the same way about nourishing her grandchildren with food and emotional support.She’s prepared day and night to take in any number of them and give them what ever they need. But, my mother is more of a modern grandmother type. She’s known to her eight grandchildren as ” just their Meems.”
This blog brought to you by Sue Batton Leonard, author of “Gift of a Lifetime:Finding Fulfilling Things in the Unexpected.”
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I love to read about memories, and I present memory programs at retirement communities.
I recently bought a glass candy dish that makes me think of the home of every senior I ever visited in my 30 years of running a senior center. of course it makes us all think of grandmother’s. I will share you article and let the seniors that I visit next week share their own. thank you
Thank you for your comment. I, too, love memories and that is why I wrote the memoir “Gift of a Lifetime:Finding Fulfilling Things in the Unexpected.” Memoirs are great ways to leave legacies for family and friends and the writing process conjures all sorts of fun recollections.