Becky Ellisor

One of the worst months I’ve had in a long , long time…  Mary, my mother in law, died on the third of the month, early in the morning. I have never seen anyone so ready for passing over. I didn’t think she was able to move any longer when I asked her forgiveness for not being the perfect caregiver. She managed to to hold out her hand and take mine. She smiled and tried to talk but couldn’t. She was happy and I knew she forgave me.

Everyone should spend some time with a dying person. Nothing teaches compassion as well or gives one such peace about their own death. It was the third time I have been with a loved one when they died. I would not trade the experience for anything. That doesn’t mean I would not want to see them alive again, it just means there is some peace and joy in being with them when they go.

The rest of the month went downhill from there. My dog was run over on New Year’s Day and died instantly. Everything that happened in between was hard and difficult to get my head wrapped around. No need to pass it all on to you, except that a cousin of mine,  Bill Yeager passed away, also. I will miss his presence at family get togethers.

My time is my own now and I look forward to continuing the fight to make life better for all of us. That is why we are here, in case you never thought about it.

I am sorry to see that Ted Sorenson has died. He was a great writer because he left us some of the best quotes in history for stirring the people up to good things. We need more men like him. The Kennedy years were so inspiring. Who is going to give us this again? Or can such a person only come from prosperity? The times they are a-killin us. Speak up and vote in honor of those times when most Americans had ethics and compassion.

In the summer of 1969 I was living in Anchorage Alaska. I took a trip to Seward  a short days ride from Anchorage, and we came upon Portage Glacier which lies south of Anchorage near Turnagain Arm. This giant glacier flowed from a distant mountain into Cook Inlet. In order to build a road south to the Kenai Peninsula the state had to carve off the end of that 40 foot thick glacier to allow for the road. Every year or two they had to come back with ice saws to trim the Glacier to keep it from destroying the road, as it continued to head down the mountain and across the Tundra into the sea.  I returned to Alaska in 1989 to vacation with my sister Fran. We again passed by Portage Glacier, only now there was a large expensive looking building that tells the story of the Glacier. The Glacier only 20 years later was a mile or more back from the road. This year my cousin Earl Ellisor sent me a picture of the glacier as it is now, 40 years later. It looks like a white teardrop between two mountains way in the distance…

Now we here that the Muslim Psychiatrist at Ft. Hood had been making phone calls to a Muslim cleric who is Al Qaida friendly. He made close to twenty calls over the last year and the CIA knew about it. Thinking and common sense should be a required class at CIA school.