Day 10: Reaching Out

Today has turned out to be a "reaching out" day for us. This morning we went to St. Patrick's Church for a memorial Mass for Dolly McCall who died about 6 weeks ago. St. Pat's was our parish for the first 10 years of our marriage and all four of our children were baptized there. We rented an apartment on Green St. when we were expecting Timmy and Dolly and her Mother were the "landladies". We have very fond memories of those years and continued the friendship every year (41 )with a Christmas visit to Dolly. During the past few years, Dolly has had a lot of health issues and we visited her more often. After Mass a few of her friends were invited to Dolly's to choose a trinket or something by which to remember Dolly. I chose a hummel. On the way out of her house, I couldn't help but think of the memories of those 10 years as it probably was the last time we would be there. Dolly didn't have any family left, but had a lot of friends of which we were very happy to be included. There were some photos there of her 80th birthday, etc . I took some of the Gallaghers and said I would send to them. Since Judy G has been ill from a serious accident, I decided to "reach out" and call her. She was happy to hear from us as was Pat. Remembering that it was Henry's Anniversary we called Nannie, but there wasn't any answer----will try again later. It is a great feeling to "reach out" to the sick and the lonely.