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This past Tuesday Morning my Grampy died. He was not sickly nor did suffer, in fact he lived his life to the absolute fullest and when he had enough he left this world to be with my Memere his wife of 62 years! His 3 passions where smoking good cigars (where I get that awesome habit from) drinking scotch, and passing his wisdom down to his children, Grandchildren, Great Grand Children, and yes even a couple of Great Great Grandchildren. Grampy taught me many important things… For example There is a great place on 495 to really open your car up easily hitting 100MPH without having to worry about the police and their radar guns because there is simply no place for them to hide. Incidentally He left out the part that this only applies to the southbound side but don’t worry my ticket was only $300. Amoung other things he also shared that you should never leave the house without your pocket knife. If you treat your wife like the queen of the castle by default you become the king…incidentally this does not work the other way around. He taught me that the expression “Boys will Be Boys” is completely true! In fact as a man it still applied to him…and I am so thankful that he understood us all as children and he let us be the boys we were….Nothing seemed to ever bother him?…”Grampy can I help?” …”Of Course you can!” “Grampy could I try?” …”As long as you are careful” “Grampy do you know how to fix this” “I don’t, but I would be happy to try and figure it out with YOU” and that was in the first 5 minutes of every visit! This weekend my family will pass our stories around and I am sure we will laugh and cry with each other. This is one of my favorite Grampy stories. He had taken me to watch the Super Modified Race cars and when we pulled into his driveway at Old County Rd. I got out of the car and slammed the door of his car as hard as I could. Up till then I thought that ALL car doors should be slammed or they wouldn’t shut because every car my family owned up till then required some serious effort to get the doors to stay shut. This was Grampy’s car and I wanted to be extra sure that his door was closed. So I put every ounce of strength I had into this particular slam. In my mind I was returning the favor…after all he took me to races, helped me find the bathroom so I didn’t have an accident, and bought me ice cream all on the same day…I had to be sure that this one time the door would close and stay closed! I loved my Grampy and wanted to give him the gift of not having to re-close my door. It would it be fair to say that door slamming was high on his very short list of pet peeves…but this particular one had to have shot straight to the top where it stayed forever! He would have been more than justified to give me a smack, taken away a privilege, or a verbal dressing down. But this was not his way. With extreme patience he pulled me aside and asked calmly “Why did you slam my door?” I had no idea that he inside he was boiling mad. I answered honestly “I wanted to make sure that it was closed all the way for you Grampy” He then opened his car door and closed it all the way with just one finger…”When you slam doors, before you know it that is the only way they will close. When you close doors gentle and firm they will close easy every time. You try it” Sure enough his door closed with very little effort. He didn’t teach me how to close HIS door…He taught me how to close ALL doors. Whether you called him Frank, Dad, or Grampy he called upon you to treat the world as he did…with a smile…but not his smile…he wanted yours! He challenged himself every single day to make someone else smile. He would say “Make someone smile every day, it cost you nothing and you never know how much they might have needed it!” How could you argue with that logic? Can you help me make my Grampy’s living wish come true? Do you accept his challenge? Can you make someone smile every day? Tonight (Pizza Party) $10 Lesson 7:30-8:15 (level is very Beginner Friendly) Dance 8:15-? DNE School of Dance 78 Princeton St. Chelmsford, Ma This Saturday (I am Teaching a WCS Lesson) $10 Lesson 7:00-8:00 Dance 8:00-11:00pm DNE School of Dance 78 Princeton St. Chelmsford, Ma Then: I am Dancing at Twirl The Girl $30-All night pass! 2 workshops & dance Starting at 7:00 with Kimmie and Jimmy! Location Tuesday January 21st (This past Tuesday we double our Attendance!) $10 7:30 Beginner/Advanced Beginner Dance Practice 8:15-? 125 N. Lowell Rd Bingo Hall in Windham, NH (the light for the sign is out so look for the giant Silo and its across the street) Leadership is the manipulation of energy. Following is the embodiment of energy. Connection is the tie that binds the two together.
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