Iget emotional sometimes.
I’m not much of a crier, but sometimes, especially with happy things, I will shed a few tears.
Taking pictures of the MARC consumers when the motorcycle riders come down Pecos Street on MARC Ride day.
All the kids in RISD coming together every November to be taught how important Veteran’s Day is. The youngest ones dressed in red, white and blue singing You’re a Grand Old Flag makes me lose it every time.
I cry at the Olympics when Americans win but also for other countries. I get choked up when astronauts do g reat s tuff a nd a re c elebrated publicly.
And I don’t mean actually crying, exactly. Just happy, proud moments that make me tear up a bit, but a little bit too much where I’m unable to speak.
I’ve known that my friend, Victoria Everett StJohn, will be leaving Rockdale soon which makes me sad, but I really hadn’t processed it until Sunday.
As we’ve gotten to know each other I really enjoy her company and seeing her at least once a week. We always laugh. Always.
I went to see her and the rest of the cast at the Kay Theater’s presentation of You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown at the Sunday matinee and so thoroughly enjoyed the performance. It happened at the Kay, but it was really a production of Milam County Theater (MCT), and I fervently hope all future productions of MCT will be held in Rockdale as well as Cameron.
Victoria came into my life a few years ago and she now works for me part-time delivering the newspapers on Wednesdays.
She’s going to be moving back to her home state of Idaho in early October and I am really going to miss her and her always-happy personality.
I am usually happy because that’s just the way I am, but she’s taught me that happiness is just something you either are or aren’t. And she is always happy no matter what is going on in her life, which lately, included some unhappy things.
She’d describe it as “God will work everything out and give you all the answers you need, so why not just be happy and wait for the answer he gives you?” She’s very sunny like that.
The whole cast was lined up in the lobby of the Kay after the show and I enjoyed it so much I wanted to shake everyone’s hand because they were all very good.
I came to Schroeder first. He was definitely a school aged child. Linus was next and he looked to be in high school or maybe a young adult. At age 60 they all look like little babies to me. The piano accompanist was next and then Victoria who played Lucy. That’s when I lost it, and we gave each other a big hug.
I learned during halftime (OK intermission. You know what I mean. Don’t act brand new.) that the actor playing Charlie Brown had recently lost his wife, and he got into the play to help him deal with his grief. Anyway, I had already lost it, so I gave him, and then Snoopy, a big hug. It was later reported to me that both Charlie Brown and Snoopy appreciated my hugs. I thought they would think I was crazy, which would be a fair assessment.
So pretty soon I’ll be looking for a replacement newspaper delivery person. Contact me if you’d like to earn an extra $50 cash for about an hour and a half worth of work. Just realize you will have a crazy and sometimes emotional boss.
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