It was a misty drizzle when I went for my run, Mother Nature looking as though she was just in her slip.
The temperature, in the high 40s, gave a glimpse of what’s to come, urging me to be hopeful, at least about the weather.
A spring rain was what occurred to me, meaning it was light and warm, nothing more than a backdrop, like the scenery of a play.
It made me think of three men I love: Abraham Lincoln, Bobby Kennedy and Bill Hicks.
When Lincoln was buried on May 4th, 1865, at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, along with his youngest son Willie who had died of typhoid fever three years earlier, it was during what historians have called, a spring rain.
Bobby Kennedy, during his short campaign for president, paying his respects to Mr. Lincoln, knelt before his tomb to pray, bursting into tears.
While Bill was on the road, he too paid a humble homage to our 16th President, saying, he couldn’t quite explain how he felt, just that it was familiar, as though he had been there before.
In hindsight, when Bobby, in 1968, and Bill, 1994, made their unexpected exits, maybe Abe was on hand to greet them.
One can only smile. One can only hope. 
SB
Susannah, who can explain the connections we sometimes experience? People long gone often lived lives that continue to resonate.
I may have told you this before, I count February first as the beginning of spring. It doesn’t matter if there are five feet of snow, I need to start the spring countdown for my own mental health. Luckily, I’m easy to fool.
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I like that idea. May I borrow it? It’s pouring here but there’s warmth in the air. 😊
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I think we sometimes have an awareness of someone who rests with the Lord whether we knew them or not. Don’t know why that it is but it can be significant. As for the weather…it is just weird. Going to be near 80* today with rain for three days and possible flooding.
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Global Warming is not just a myth. Lincoln remains a light for so many reasons. He had no idea the influence he’d have. When Edwin Stanton said, now he belongs to the ages, it was prophetic in a way that I’m certain even he didn’t know.
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Happy birthday to Abe on Feb.12th…let’s hope for our better angels.
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I should have waited till tomorrow. How silly of me. Thanks.
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Some things are unexplainable and just are. It would be nice to call a rain in February spring-like. Not something we see up here in Quebec very often.
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I forget you’re there. The weather here is so screwy. It’s pouring as I write but warm, as if it were April. Hard to know how to dress. sigh
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It is screwy. Up until last Friday, we’d hardly had any snow. And then BOOM! 2 feet in one dump. Normally we have that “what to wear in April 😉
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Hope you have a good pair of Welles.
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Oh. We are full on in snow boot mode!
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How bout a sled with Zeke pulling it. I’ll bet he’d be great. WOOF
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I bet he would have back in the day! 🐕🛷
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🙂
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It sounds like it’s a very mild winter there this year. It’s been kind of that way too, alternating between winter and fall for a month or more now. Great thoughts on your three men. 🙂
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Today is Abe’s birthday. I’m going to read his First Inaugural, my favorite, and the Gettysburg Address, in memory of him. Did you know he wrote it on a napkin while riding the train to Pennsylvania from Washington? He was under the weather, also quite sad, still mourning the death of his son Willie, but had to attend. The reason they even had such an event was because, there were so many Union dead, as well as Rebs, who were still Americans even if they were fighting for the south, they had to be buried there, hence, the birth of Gettysburg National Cemetery, along with I believe 2 others. From my Abe file. 🙂
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The places our minds go when something as simple as a spring rain intrudes. And the people it brings back with it.
In your case, three men who had a lot of mo to give this world. They didn’t get nearly enough time.
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I know that. Abe, whose birthday it is today…I should have waited a day…sigh…was only 56. Bobby 42, and Bill 33. Yes…not enough time.
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So incredibly sad.
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Missed this. Yeah, but they speak from the ether. Lighten the fuck up. At least Abe was laughing when he went. Hicks I’m sure appreciated that. As for RFK, he was a very serious man, even on a lighter day, carrying the world on his shoulders, whether it was feeling responsible for his brother’s death, the plight of the American Indian kid, their suicide rate off the charts, or kids in the Ozarks with swollen bellies, it had to be so hard for him. Mr. Imma, once again, popped a file. sigh
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It’s so easy to say lighten up to us folks down here, but it’s much more difficult to remain light, yanno? Too much darkness sometimes.
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I’m just sayin’.
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You’re right 😉
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Now I feel bad for being right. Sigh
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Nope, it’s a very good thing SB
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Ok. You’ve persuaded me. 😉
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You rock
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There have been many times in which I have read a blog post of yours and felt as if I knew you for an entire lifetime. I know a lot of that is because having read your book and all the posts, I have known a goodly portion of a lifetime. You are a special person and it’s really nice when I see the parts of you that I feel in me come out in a post. Thank you.
Scott
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No Scott, thank you for always saying such kind things about my prose. It means a lot. Susannah
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Once again, truth is easy.
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Mark Twain said, when you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. 🙂
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Yes, and I love that quote….his quote “Don’t invest in anything that eats or needs repainted” I think that is correct. I like it too.
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He was great, wasn’t he…Huck’s dad.
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