Simple Things -- Warm and from the Heart

It was the simple things that made father happiest as when we went out to the rifle range to shoot with our scoped 303s; we did that, but it was not those things which made him happiest. To him things were jsut things that didn't matter much. He was happiest when he did those things that took him back to his childhood.

As Muriel pointed out his childhood was happy and unhappy at times and perhaps most times, he was an unhappy child. But he was a man that could be warm and charming these are the things in him I choose to remember.

Here in this picture he is content and being content is what really matters. You see the young boy inside the old man -- you see the things that made him to me so precious and cherished. Father could show this side of himself without a thought to who else might observe it and I got in on film to share it with you.

I guess that I cannot expect everyone to understand this way of being as involved as an adult as father could be and yet as gentle, simple and loving as a child -- the other side of him that made him as unique as he was a good person. The very reason why Mother loved him so.

Here another moment I like, scan 0081 in my collection. When sister Muriel and Jack got married at Cornwallis Street Baptist church. They were so young and in love with each other -- precious mements.

By the way Muriel did not know that I was going to send this out. I did send it to her earlier this week and I know that they both were taken back to their youth. For all of them these were precious mements in their lives. Love to family and friends, JR.

As always, Well wishes,

F. Stanley Boyd