The Circle of Life

Dear Baby,

My grandmother is 88 years old. I'm worried that you'll never meet her. When she called me last week, it was one o'clock in the afternoon before she was dressed and ready to greet her day. Yesterday she sounded sad and defeated.

She has been one of the greatest influences in my life and I fear that you will never meet her or know her. Gram cared for me when I was little. I never had a babysitter or nanny - I just had her. Her life story is compelling and I hope that she can describe life as a sharecropper in Mississippi, her family's migration to New York, and what it was like working at GE during WWII.

I know how the circle of life works. People are born and people die, but it doesn't make me want you here any less or not want her to stay around much longer.

Love,
Dear Mama