The Rural Voice, 1995-01, Page 8Gisele Ireland
People I'd like to meet in 1995
As old calendars are replaced with
new, we too can file the old memories
of 1994 in our mental scrapbooks of
life and get ready for a whole new
assortment in the coming year.
The most outstanding thing for me
in 1994 was the people I met. In
1995, I want to meet more of them ...
you know ... the happy ones that put
a smile on your face and hope in your
heart.
High on my list is getting to know
more farmers who arc happy with the
price they're getting for what they're
producing.
There arc people out there who arc
content to trust the representative
they've elected to politics and talk
enthusiastically about the future of
our country. Dinner with them makes
you want to go out and buy a dozen
flags to plant on your lawn.
I'd like to meet more doctors like
my own who claims stress can be
relieved by making love more often,
playing with grandchildren more and
having a snowball fight with your
spouse. Super Wrench is suffering
from exhaustion but I sure feel better.
It's stimulating to come across a
dentist who gives you options when
your mouth is stuffed full of cotton
and you're
mute. I like the
idea of making a
decision
concerning a
tooth extraction
as to whether I
want to lay out
the price of a
new television
on the aching
molar and then
have it
extracted, or to
yank it out right
now and get it
over with.
There's nothing more soul
inspiring than to converse with a
group of parents who are proud of the
job they've done raising their
offspring. They just ooze confidence
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when they relate how they've shared
and nurtured all the important things
in life with their children to equip
them to face life with confidence.
Most of them place independence,
common sense and a zest for life
above the certificate they eventually
get from some learning institution.
There must be a person, or
possibly more than one, out there who
can design a government form that
one can understand and actually fill
out correctly the first time in roughly
the same amount of time it takes to
change the sheets on all the beds in
the house. I really want to meet this
rarity and have a long talk.
I want to take part in more groups
who jubilate over their financial
investment in a third world country
and what effect it has had on both the
giver and the receiver. It's a refresh-
ing change from having to suffer
through a convoluted explanation as
to how someone can make a fortune
by investing in mutual funds.
I want to meet more of those
wonderful people who feel integrity,
honesty and compassion for others is
a mandatory personality trait, not
some fluke that very few are afflicted
with.
I want to be around people who
kiss and hug their spouses and
children, cry for joy at family births,
express sorrow at death or disaster
and can handle it all with grace and a
deep faith. They're out there, I met
them last year ... but not enough of
them. HAPPY NEW YEAR!O
Gisele Ireland, from Bruce County, is
an author of several humorous books on
farm life.
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