My Grandfather Taught Me That It Is Harder To Be Kind Than It Is To Be Clever.
We Had Entered An Era Of Limitlessness, Or The Illusion Thereof, And This In Itself Is A Sort Of Wonder. My Grandfather Lived A Life Of Limits, Both Suffered And Strictly Observed, In A World Of Limits. I Learned Much Of That World From Him And Others, And Then I Changed; I Entered The World Of Labor-saving Machines And Of Limitless Cheap Fossil Fuel. It Would Take Me Years Of Reading, Thought, And Experience To Learn Again That In This World Limits Are Not Only Inescapable But Indispensable.
Going Back To Georgiana Drew And John Drew, And My Great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, And It Was Such A Sort Of Circus Of Odd, Interesting People That Loved Acting.
We Will Never Forget Those Like My Great-grandfather Who Fought At Vicksburg.
I Have Family In Ponce. It's A Shame That My Grandfather Passed And I Wasn't Able To Be There With Him.
In My Grandfather's Lab, Scientists Did Independent Research, And Peers Reviewed And Commented On Its Merits. Politics, He Taught Me, Had No Place In The Scientific Process.
One Of The Stories That Dominates Our Family Literature Was The Fact That My Maternal Grandfather Contracted For - I Don't Know Under What Terms - But, For A Large Section Of The Old Slave Plantation. He Established Himself - Sisters And Brothers, Cousins, Etc. On Fifty- And Sixty-acre Plots.
She Glances Back Before Stepping Into The Alley, And She Catches Her Grandfather Looking At Her The Way He Does Sometimes--as If She's Already Gone, As If He's Practicing Sorrow.
My Great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, Was A Dentist In Kingston, Ontario, And He Was Also An Edwardian Spiritualist Researcher Who Was Very Interested In What Was Going On In The Invisible World, The Survival Of The Consciousness, Precipitated Paintings, Mediumship, And Trans-channeling.
I'm Luckier Than My Grandfather, Who Didn't Move More Than Five Miles From The Village In Which He Was Born.
My Grandfather Was Bob Shad, One Of Those Legendary Jazz And Blues Producers - He Worked With Charlie Parker And Dinah Washington, And He Produced Janis Joplin's Album [1967's Big Brother & The Holding Company]. He Always Owned Small Labels As Well - He Had A Label Called Mainstream Records In The 70s.
