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Photo by Ken Williams for The Concord Monitor We are starting to feel like the Waltons. Another holiday season is upon us and the Broadbents and the Ellinwoods are as broke as that fictional 1970s teevee family. Oh those Waltons. We used to love to watch their homespun holidays; for Thanksgiving Daddy would go out and shoot a big old turkey, and they’d bow their heads over their mismatched china and brown food and Grandpa would recite long passages from the bible. It was so foreign and humble and cute to our teenaged eyes and ears, with not a Pillsbury Crescent or string bean casserole in sight. And then when Christmas rolled around we loved how their tree was trimmed with homemade ornaments, and all the presents they exchanged seemed to be made out of corn cobs and worn flannel. It made for good television but we bet even Jim Bob couldn’t whittle an IPod, not if he spent a month of Sundays, as Mary Ellen would say. We’ve asked around and it seems that a lot of folks are feeling the pinch this year, despite the soaring stock market and the million dollar Wall Street bonuses. Everyone we know is working harder than ever – taking on new jobs or …
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KEEP IT YELLOW We have all experienced a tragedy of some sort in our life, accident, illness, death, whether parent or child, sibling or friend, even ourself. Watching someone we love suffer leaves us feeling helpless, lost, our greatest desire wanting to reach out and help, wanting to ease their pain and suffering, change the course of time and events, make it all go away. The first experience I had with illness was at the tender age of 10, tiptoeing into the hospital room where my grandfather would live out his final weeks, this serious, intelligent, awe-inspiring man, wasting away from cancer. The air was heavy with sadness, yet the adults were laughing, joking, offering food as was – and is – the way of our family. Keep it light, make them laugh, ease the suffering for just a few minutes. Michael, Sue, Andrew and I with Grandpa My next experience, close up and personal, was in college; my darling, wonderful friend and roommate had been diagnosed with bone cancer when still a girl, yet she made the decision to never give up, never give in. She fought hard, following the rules, taking care of herself, working hard. I remember her telling me that after a long period of recession the cancer was back and …
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