tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455712904694318171.post1340909991709072482..comments2023-10-12T08:03:18.015-05:00Comments on Diary of a Technophobe: Green jeansPoindexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754293708567921996noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455712904694318171.post-25373979939429636282010-07-14T20:23:49.000-05:002010-07-14T20:23:49.000-05:00This post leaves such beautiful imagery in my head...This post leaves such beautiful imagery in my head. We're reading "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (Zora Neale Hurston) as a family, and Janie often compares herself with a pear tree...blooms like love, leaves like life...Poindexterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02754293708567921996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455712904694318171.post-61765497870096788592010-07-13T19:56:26.000-05:002010-07-13T19:56:26.000-05:00I am really not very good at tending to houseplant...I am really not very good at tending to houseplants, but this story touched me on a much deeper level. Thank you for sharing this.Poindexterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02754293708567921996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455712904694318171.post-87946530806453450542010-07-13T13:33:26.000-05:002010-07-13T13:33:26.000-05:00Oh, Diane...your posts always touch me on such a d...Oh, Diane...your posts always touch me on such a deep level. Something in the way you share a memory though your words, immediately captures me and pulls me in.<br /><br />I remember my mother having chenille bedspreads on all the beds in our house. That was a big thing in the 50's. I also remember Ethel Mertz in I Love Lucy wearing a chenille bath robe - HA!<br /><br />Having seen your beautiful floral arrangements at your wedding celelbration, I can tell that you definitely inherited your grandmothers talent for "window sill gardening."<br /><br />Bellissima!<br /><br />XPoindexterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02754293708567921996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455712904694318171.post-9803510095793198442010-07-13T11:42:21.000-05:002010-07-13T11:42:21.000-05:00My grandparents used to do everything together all...My grandparents used to do everything together all the time. The went everywhere together and as the years gone by his health started to deteriorate and she became his caretaker. When he passed away she would still do things that they used to do. I would come by to say and she would always remind me to say hi to him too.Poindexterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02754293708567921996noreply@blogger.com