the best ten dollars i ever spent

August stormAugust storm Posts: 186
edited December 2003 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
about a year or two ago my father and my husbands grandfather would complain everytime they visited me" why do you not have a coffee maker?" id simply say i am only a social coffee drinker and have no need for one becuase i do not get frequent visits from coffee drinkers i go to the coffee shop instead!
then i was in the store one day and seen a very nice maker on sale for ten dollars so my loved ones instanly popped in my head:)
i bought it.
the same week my dad popped in and i made him coffee and sat and talked for a while it felt so good to spend time with him:)
the same week my hubby grandfather (whom i am closer to than he is) came over we had coffee and he let me in on a secret he was keeping to himself, he told me he had cancer and he had alot of it! they were pretty confident he wasnt going to make it! i was so sad i held my tears in becuase he told me the reason he didnt want to tell was due to everyone crying he hates making people sad! well the second he left i cried, i prayed, i yelled"how could this happen to somone so kind!" i was so mixed with so many emotions.....
i then called him every morning to come and have coffee , through all the radiation treatments all the doctors appoinments, we talked and talked and talked, i didnt want to waste any time on my sadness or anger to not see him incase he did die! not too long ago he told me over coffee that his cancer has shrunk, so there is now hope for him, i truly beleive its becuase he didnt make himself sick with thoughts of death instead we had coffee "dates" just him and I"
and this is the best ten dollars i ever spent the ten dollars that just might have kept my hubbys grandfather alive for this long and created our bond that will last even after death does one day part us:) please take this story with you on this christmas eve and remember all of the lonley family members who may want to share in coffee or something a bond with you , you never know they could be keeping a secret as well we never know when we will not see them again so spend all the time you can with these wonderful people and remeber without loved ones your soul will be empty and cold, so warm it up with love....
love always booboo peace....................
whats good for the goose is good for the gander
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  • :D A beautiful story! I just love it! Thank you, thank you, thank you! And I'm glad to hear his cancer is shrinking! And I'm so glad to hear that something as simple as a little coffee, could bring so much love and understanding to your table. May you and yours have a healthy, happy and marvellous Christmas!!!!! :D
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • mangulmangul Posts: 25
    you know, my grandfather died of cancer like 4 years ago, and this story reminded me alot of him because we didn't have that coffe that could bring us together, i didn't want t see him so bad, so sad, i wanted to keep in my mind the image of him that i've always had ... a big, strong man.... i don't know, it's kind of sad perhaps i did wrong....glad to hear that your grandpa inlaw is gettin better and if i'm allowed to give a little piece of advice....don't stop the coffe dates....those might be the cure, after all, they say "cancer is a soul desease"...
    "No, not that way, you yuppie scumbag...This way!" McCready grabs the guitar, whips it around his head like it was a woodchopper's axe and brings it crashing down in an explosion of splinter. "There, now you try it."
  • thanks, that hit home.
  • Originally posted by Being Enlightened
    :D A beautiful story! I just love it! Thank you, thank you, thank you! And I'm glad to hear his cancer is shrinking! And I'm so glad to hear that something as simple as a little coffee, could bring so much love and understanding to your table. May you and yours have a healthy, happy and marvellous Christmas!!!!! :D
    thank you and yours also:)
    whats good for the goose is good for the gander
  • Originally posted by mangul
    you know, my grandfather died of cancer like 4 years ago, and this story reminded me alot of him because we didn't have that coffe that could bring us together, i didn't want t see him so bad, so sad, i wanted to keep in my mind the image of him that i've always had ... a big, strong man.... i don't know, it's kind of sad perhaps i did wrong....glad to hear that your grandpa inlaw is gettin better and if i'm allowed to give a little piece of advice....don't stop the coffe dates....those might be the cure, after all, they say "cancer is a soul desease"...
    thanks you mangul and yep i still have regular coffee dates these are the reason im usually not back on the thread when i say im comming back he usually stops in for coffee:)
    whats good for the goose is good for the gander
  • Originally posted by BhagavadGita
    thanks, that hit home.
    your welcome :)
    whats good for the goose is good for the gander
  • i'd spend ten grand on a coffee maker if it could perc moments like that... maybe more


    thank you for sharing this :)
    ~all is full of love~
  • Originally posted by tenaciousA
    i'd spend ten grand on a coffee maker if it could perc moments like that... maybe more


    thank you for sharing this :)
    after finding what had become of buying it i would spend that also. your welcome and also thank you for replying:)
    whats good for the goose is good for the gander
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