"A Visit with Uncle Gilbert" by Ginny Foard
–He could not send others into dangers that he was not willing to face himself.
The locals know that date. They honor it. They value it because it gave them freedoms that they live to this day.
Words and their friends fill Ginny’s days. Sometimes they come in a well-organized dignified gathering so that Ginny can enquire about the spellings and meanings of the ones she hasn’t met before. Other times, however, they spill out and fly by quickly as if they flew out the window of a speeding car. Ginny likes to imagine what those words might have been, try out using them and guessing their derivations.
A fascinating thing is that you can rearrange words over and over. And Ginny keeps doing that. Every time out comes a different story. Real stories. Ginny shares her little post office box on Sullivans Island, South Carolina with many words and hopes to keep on doing so.
Ginny Foard (self-portrait)