Greetings from Karen and me. As you read in the email Karen sent this past weekend, our days here in China are filled with quite a variety of experiences. Today, however, we spent quietly in our apartment doing some much needed cleanup of our online pictures. We are assembling our pictures into major events of our life, and them moving them into Shutterfly picture books which we can share with everybody. Well, my first picture book is going to focus on the development of our Cemetery, since many recent pictures are of Jeff and Trevor Chenault building the lane. As I extracted the pictures, I noticed that the pictures are dated from September 19, 2008 - September 7, 2017, almost nine years. That lead me to the Title for the picture book - "The Clites Cemetery - The First Nine Years" September 19, 2008 - September ?, 2017". Since I wasn't quite sure of today's date, I asked Karen, "What is today's date?" Her reply, September 19, 2017." September 19, 2017, today is the 9th Anniversary of Sally's death.
I spent the next hour or so rereading the blogs that were written of Sally's last month's of life, and some that were written after. I scrolled through volumes of digital pictures of all of us during those days. I must say that this was a very refreshing experience for me. It brought back many memories of the rich experiences we have shared together.
I just wanted to share this with each of you, so that you may also take a moment today, to reflect on the wonderful contribution that your mother made to our lives.
We think of each of you and your families often, and hope that you all are doing well. With love, Dad
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