Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Friends

I met this friend in 1969. In 1973, we got a job at the same school. She retired last year. If you look closely you will see her hands are resting on her cane. All the kids who we have taught think we are sisters. She came last Friday and we had lunch together.

1 comment:

patsy said...

I looked it up, hank wrote the song I saw the light, his mother said the idea came to him one night she was driving the car after a show and hank was laying with his head in her lap and he said mama I am so tired, so tired but I know we are almost home cause I saw the light. she said the light he was talking about was the air port light near their home. one of the last showed he did he stumbled off the stage after two songs and minnie pearl and roy acoff drove him around pouring coffee in him trying to sober him up for the 2nd show they started singing I saw the light and Hank said that the trouble minnie there is no light.