the heart does grow fonder.

My life is and will always be all about people. That's what makes me the happiest and shine my pearly whites. So this blog is where I begin sharing the day to day people of my life. May they be strangers, friends, family or foe. I want to look back and be able to say that I have and always will appreciate the people in my life. For people are people and they will be who they are among life, but that is what I love the most. People are people.

I've been living with my grandparents for the past two and half months since graduation from UGA. It's been nothing like my life in Athens, but I truly have enjoyed every minute. With that said, the events of this past Friday hit me whether I was ready or not. My grandfather's health has been in decline for the past two years. He has battled his lymphoma cancer and neuropathy in legs day after day. The man has always been made of steel and refuses to let anyone know he's hurting. Yet Friday afternoon his John Wayne mentality broke down and to the hospital he went. With a sharp pain stabbing him in his lung, he could barely inhale any oxygen needless to say talk. So for the past two days he's been at St. Thomas Hospital dealing. My partner in crime for the past two months hasn't been around for our comical banter or even just for a tongue stuck out at one another. I've tried my best to remain optimistic and see what comes ahead is all for a greater reasoning. I miss him. The man that I have respected and honored for the past 23 years is slowly but surely slipping. It's a reality that we all have to face at some point because we all to have our time and place to leave. However I'm not ready quite yet to say bye to him. In the past two months he has taught me so much on our lunch dates every week and I'm getting to experience what it was like for my mom to grow up with such an incredible man as her role model. Yes he is my grandfather, but he is so much more than just that one word. He's a man I'm never going to forget.

So I start this blog in a dedication to him really because we can't take for granted the family and friends we have right in front of our faces. People are people regardless of their hair color, religion, sexual preference, race or anything someone wants to judge another based upon. People are people and my grandfather happens to be a remarkable one.