My Grandmother’s Visit

This takes place in Collingwood, Ontario in the summer of 1983, my mother and I were visiting my grandparents which was my mothers folks. It was in June that my grandmother had just died and I was around 20 years of age, I called her “Nana” and one morning at around dawn I heard the bedroom door open and heard nana say to Mom “Muriel it’s time to get up” and I heard mom say “I’ll be up in a few minutes Mum” well I open my eyes and I saw her come in and then leave.

So when I did get up I asked Mom why did nana call you so early? And she said “I don’t know” then we realized that nana is dead, so from that time on we just dropped the subject. But I knew that a mothers/grandmothers care will always beat the grave. Thanks for listening.


By: bwieland@connection.com