"Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." Not a happy thought to contemplate, but very appropriate for this particular Ash Wednesday. I learned yesterday that both Peggy Catlin, my mother's best friend from childhood on (in the top photograph on the right) and also Marion Bellarosa, my mother's good friend from Stuart, Florida (in the bottom photograph on the right) have recently passed away. Both they and my mother, Mary Hoyt (in the center in the top photo and on the left in the bottom photograph), lived good long lives and really enjoyed their retirements. Margaret White, the woman in the top photo on the left, did not live too much longer after that photograph was taken. Which just goes to show that we never know when the end will come, but come it will, eventually. As the old song goes: "enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think." Happy Ash Wednesday Everyone!
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