Lee always picked the biggest & happiest pumpkins!!
My nephew loved Hallowe'en time... even maybe more than Christmas?!! I don't think it was ever about the candy... more to do with dressing up as monsters and scaring the wits out of people!
Today, October 16th is a sad day for me...
4 years ago today, he lay in a hospital bed... his body broken and sad. I said good-bye to my sweet nephew of 24 years.
Many people have asked me how long I've been playing the ukulele and what made me decide to take it up. Lee is the reason why. I was a little bit of a lost soul when he passed away... and for whatever reason, I found myself wandering through the local music store on my lunch hour a few days after and there it was! A dozen ukuleles behind a locked glass-enclosed display. It was funny in more ways than one.
I stood there for a second and started laughing... I couldn't understand why such an instrument was under great protection. And then I heard my nephew laughing with me.... OK Lee, can you see me playing one?
I ran back to the office and Googled "Ukulele Teachers" and that was it...
Now I'm a little more happy... and I know whenever I play my ukulele, it's for my nephew! I think he would like that I can play a little Santana.... a little Tin Pan Alley.... and he would like that when I first started to learn I could scare people with it too... but now... well, it's all good now.
Hey Lee... it is still pretty funny... miss you always & forever
Love, Auntie xoxox
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