"You know, there's 2 places I never want to go. One's jail and the other is in the hospital. So when the ambulance came for me [broken hip] I told the driver, 'Just take me straight to the cemetary. I'd rather go there, yes sir!.'"
Bessie Delany
Book of Everyday Wisdom
Kodansha International 1994
p. 124
Sadie and Bessie Delany lived into their hundreds; and I mean "lived." I read their book, Having Our Say, years a go and plan to read it again. These African American women are so fun! And they give us good lessons in creative perseverence.
Smiling,
Lonnie
PS: Also reminds me of an older woman who my roommate visited on her off-nursing-hours. She was a touch cranky. One time, she spouted at Candi, "Well forgive me for living; but I fell out of the hearse."
Still Smiling,
Lonnie
