“Sunday is Still Visiting Sunday – Visit Someone”

Sep 1st “Sunday is Still Visiting Sunday – Visit Someone”

“Older… and still – We wear Knickerbockers!”

As you can see, We are getting older, We still wear “Knickerbockers” and this is on a “Visiting Sunday” which, I thought we were suppose to be all dressed up!

My brothers are not, even wearing their “Sunday Ties.” The “RULES” that we did have, must have, “got up and left” this place! Almost no “RULES” at all, is there a changing of the “guard” and, everybody is really relaxing?

When wearing these “Knickerbockers” especially these older and worn out ones, you do not always have that nice “baggy-knee” the part of these trousers, that is to give a young man, that spotting style, as if we were going to play on the nearest “golf” course?

“Poison Ivy” That is what you see on Tommy’s legs! Some real big red blotches of the stuff, covering the legs! Can not remember anyone, having a case of the “Poison Ivy” other than “TOM” and no idea where you could go, to role around in it?

Checking out the “PLAY-grounds” as the play grounds were all asphalt and large sections of concrete only areas, There were a couple of trees growing here and there, but with each tree, they each had a real nice boxed in area, These “tree-boxes” making a terrific sitting area, we called them “tree boxes” which was a new name for me to use, that is for all of the kids and on “Visiting Sunday” families would gather around one “tree box” – which would have enough room for a large size family and even some friends, to hang around.

So, the BIG question still remains, ”How did the “Poison Ivy” creep in and attack our little TOMMY?”

“That’s MOM and Daddy standing behind DENNY Jr. and TOMMY and of course, I am taking this photo.

“Visiting Sunday” was a good time while it lasted, but when five o’clock in the afternoon came around, it was “real murder” for me, crying and all chocked up, couldn’t talk, and when bed time came, would cry myself to sleep.

People avoid talking about how miserable it is for little kids, and that being a German Orphanage, I just can not say that I ever saw any real “LOVE” shown one to another, as there were some “NUNS” – that had been in this very same Orphanage, when they were kids. Bach in the 1920’s and 1930’s and with no place to go, and it being a cold, cold world to take a chance in, being all alone, many just became “NUNS” and their “cold hearts” were a regular part of their LIFE – being passed on to us later generation of ORPHAN kids.

When I had left the Orphanage, and some many years, later, when I was working and got to thinking, that there were a couple of those “NUNS” – that I had thought about, and just what their LIFE must have been?

So, had to find them, see what they were doing? Some even had left the Convent, as evidently that LIFE, just was not for them. I started a real good communication system with writing letters and sending greeting cards, to them at various times of the year. Found out that, they too, were just waiting for someone to think of them.

Just how lonely their single LIFE could really be, they not having any families and then being a NUN, in some cases, well what is LIFE all about – when you have no real FAMILY of your very own? You look for something that you know about, being in an Orphanage Home which is the next best thing to do, since you had no idea of “what to do” in the “out side” world, so, to be a NUN – gives you a WAY of LIFE!

LIFE, does take a very different turn, for most of us – we have great ideas of what we are going to do, but then, lots of times in LIFE, ii really is just too hard! We all need a helping hand, now and then!

“What we all really need, is just for another “human being” to care and share their LIFE with another, with one, who was not so fortunate as to make it great, not as great as they thought, that they would??” D.V.