You know not too long ago Andy Griffith died.
Publicity photo of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts from a Jim Nabors television special. Griffith and Knotts revive their Andy and Barney roles for a skit on the show. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The days of Mayberry USA and the Andy Griffith Show makes me think of black and white TV and chats with my Grandparents. Andy Griffith also makes me think of sitting on my Grandma‘s lap watching Matlock (maybe the start of my obsession with TV mystery shows).
I unfortunately lost my grandfathers at an early age, but I did have the joy (although it didn’t always seem like a joy at the time) of having my grandmothers live in the house when I was growing up.
Now, as you can imagine, I was ALL boy growing up. And my older brothers were very good at their role of aggravating their younger brother (me).
It seemed that they could and would get away with murder, and then my Grandmother would share a story with me and help me to understand the things that really mattered in life.
As a child hearing the words ‘when I was a child’ used to mean here comes one of those boring stories from Grandma. Now that I’m grown and married I’ve discovered that the older I get the smarter my Grandparents seem to become.
I think there’s a saying that ‘youth is wasted on the young’ and I think that may be because we often just don’t know how good we have it until we no longer have it.
Can you relate to that statement?
If your grandparents are still around be sure to give them and hug. Listen to their stories and hold on to the nuggets of wisdom they share. You may not agree with them, but most often when you listen to the essence of what it is that they are sharing then you’ll hear the ‘wonderful’ in the ‘grand’.
Remember: “I’ve got your back!”
Dr. Scot Gray
