Good Ole Days

These are some newspaper clippings that were provided to U S Legacies Magazine by

Opal Fay Albin Oxley

3/9/1923 – 1/6/2011

Birdseye, Indian

National Nursing Home Week

May 14, 2023 – May 20, 2023

“Friends of the Aged”

Blessed are they that understand

Al

Submitted by Kelly Denise Baker

Whether it was in his youth

or more recent days,

there was a warmth about him...

there was always a warmth in his eyes.

Some of us have our last memories of him

with him looking back at us

barely having the energy to talk,

but having all the energy in the world

to form a big smile.

I know him to be the one in the family

If you're headed in the wrong direction, u-turns are allowed

For every 60 seconds of anger, you lose one minute of happiness.

Kindness: a language the deaf can hear, the blind can see, and the mute can speak.

When you see someone without a smile, give him one of yours.

I do not think happiness is too hard to find -- it is how you treat it once you get hold of it that counts.

What holds you together is far greater than what can tear you apart.

In George Washington's days, there were no cameras. One's image was either sculpted or painted. Some paintings of George Washington showed him standing behind a desk with one arm behind his back while others showed both legs and both arms. Prices charged by painters were not based on how many people were to be painted, but by how many limbs were to be painted. Arms and legs are "limbs," therefore painting them would cost the buyer more. Hence the expression: "Okay, but it'll cost you an arm and a leg."

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