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A LOVE OF ART

My granddaughter Kaelin and I share a
love of art. I am so proud of her. She has
progressed from copying our drawings
to creating drawings of her own. I
challenged her to draw a deer for this
submission, and she worked hard to get
it just right with little help. In the end,
we compared our creations and had a
wonderful time together.

Bonnie Wright

Bonnie Wright and granddaughter Kaelin, 11 ROLE MODEL

SAFETY FIRST I need to share with you the
content of a card received from
Passing wisdom on to our grandsons has been a pleasure, especially when it has my three grandchildren here in
involved useful safety lessons. We were so proud of the boys for becoming very good Texas in celebration of “Happy
skiers early on, but we hung our heads in shame when we heard a couple telling the Grandfather’s Day.”
story about three little boys who were skiing out of control. “Yikes, those sound like
our grandsons!” Grandpa flagged them down for a serious talk, beginning with, “If The face of the card, in heavy
you want to keep skiing, you’ll slow down!” They knew GP meant what he said, so gold lettering, read “Happy
they began to control themselves. Father’s Day - Wisdom, Strength,
Summer was filled with more fun times, when our grandsons would visit us in the Patience and Love.” Within the
small hometown where they were introduced to horseback riding, trampolines and card was printed the inscription
“water fights” with the garden hose. “Safety First” was always the best lesson to learn “Celebrating a wonderful Grandad
when going out on the ranch to ride an old mare or drive a four-wheeler by yourself. and a remarkable man, enjoy your
Increasing a grandchild’s experience and adding to their vocabulary was made day.” The card is signed by each
easier by the questions they asked their grandparents. For example, when horseback of my three loving grandchildren
riding, “When can I steer the horse?” was an opportunity to learn, while, “How can and our expanding family here in
I make him go faster?” was deliberately not answered early in their training. Texas.
Other times, the grandkids’ stories gave us opportunities to tell them about special
events in our lives from when we were young, such as the time when both Grandpa Their message to me read: “Happy
and I had an exciting part in the 1962 Sugar Bowl. Looking through their grandpa’s Father’s Day Grandad! Thank you
scrapbook from his college days at the University of Texas and my scrapbook from for always supporting us over the
Southwest State University has given all of us the joy of feeling young again! last three years. You have always
Becky Cunningham been an incredible role model to
us and we can never repay you.
Thank you for always being there
for Mom as well - we would never
be who we are without her and,
in turn, without you. We love you
and Nanny so much and can’t wait
to enjoy time with you for years to
come.”

There surely can be no better
recognition of the influence that
I have had on their young lives.

Norman Tucker

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