Who Are You Listening To?

 

Who are you listening to? Ten Four. On old CB radios you let someone know you got their message with those words. You held down the button on the mic and said heartily, “Ten Four.”  Last Tuesday was Ten Four, Oct.4, 2022.  Thinking about those days, missing people. I’ve been missing my father in law, Louie H. Wiklund. A tall, thin shop worker and part time farmer, who also was a commercial fisherman and avid deer hunter. He was devoted to his church and church family. One of his best jobs, he often said, was turning a handle on a homemade ice cream churn. He laughed when he talked about splitting wood for a fire place. “Wood warms you twice,” he said often. “Once when you cut it and then again when you burn it.”

 

 

Of course, if I think about that, I think of my brother in-law, Lee Downey, Emmett to many people. He was sage Missourian who moved to Cordova. As mayor he was well known as a good listener. As a brother-in-law, he said your shoes and your bed should be two of the most comfortable things you own, because you are in one or the other most of the time. Both guys make me chuckle a little when I think of them, but their influence in my life was tremendous. 

 

We are so blessed with people who are there when we need them, and provide us with love, protection and fun. Write some character sketches for people in your life who made a lasting impression on you and helped make you who you are today Pass them along to other family members who knew them and grandchildren who didn’t. I heard a pastor today say that if we take time to look back, Jesus’ fingerprints are all over our past. Save those memories for the upcoming generations.

 

Ten Four, I hope.