Yesterday, when the following popped up on the screen of my PC out of nowhere, initially I was a little sad, unsure and maybe even a little peeved about receiving a notice like this:
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However, later on, as I made my FB rounds, there were several more mentions and photos of him that made me smile thinking of him and his family.
For example, his wife Gina posted these:
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His sister Mary Leslie posted this:
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Bart’s cousin LG Raley (standing to Bart’s right in the photo below) was at Buzzy’s Country Store the other day. He mentioned this photo of everyone taken at a family reunion held at Bart’s place several years ago. Mary Leslie has it as her profile photo:
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(Note that three who are no longer with us, Bart, Clark and John Wayne are all standing side by side.)
So I’ll give the Facebook folks a pass on their automated notice of Bart’s birthday because seeing all these comments and pleasant memories more than made up for it.
I don’t mess much with FB, but if I were to do so I would have included this photo of Bart at Buzzy’s following his and Gina’s trip to Peru. He presented me with a souvenir that he picked up there. The souvenir is still on the shelf in Buzzy’s even if Bart is gone. While I do like and appreciate the souvenir, I sure wish it were the other way around.
I was thinking about playing a sad song for you, but want to leave on a feel good note. How about then Elton’s upbeat-not-so-sad song about sad songs? Pretty clever how he and lyricist Bernie Taupin managed to pull that one off.