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Estalene Morrell
“Mema” Strong
of who you are
or where you
come from,
she has always
by Canon Perkins got room in
her house and
even more in
her heart. If you
y great grandmother, think you are, it takes are a stranger,
Mema, has had a massive real strength to know
Mimpact on my life and when you need help. she will ensure
that you are
will always be someone I look to
with compassion, respect, and love. If you were to ask me the most practically family by the end of the
important ingredient needed to day. While there are many people
There are many essential qualities make a Mema is, I’d tell you that in my life who have shown me
that make Mema amazing, not the the first thing you’ll need is love how to love, it has been Mema who
least of which is her strength, and because, if there is one thing I’ve showed me what it's like to live by
I mean that in every sense of that learned, it's that it is impossible to love.
word. You may be strong enough have a Mema without love. In a
to bench press a truck, but are you world where discord and conflict When you are spending time
at a grandparent’s house,
strong enough to endure years are commonplace, it is never a bad
of moving homes, while raising thing to have some love, and if love the atmosphere is sometimes
difficult to put into words. I can
three kids? You may lift weights were a currency, then Mema would
for five days straight, but can you be rich. Mema knows that love is only describe Mema’s home
as an epicenter of security,
overcome incredibly
multiple trips contagious entertainment, and enjoyment, a
place where nobody stays upset
to the hospital and enjoys
and find the watching for long. When I was little, a trip
to Mema’s house was treated with
strength to it spread
keep going? as much as the same level of celebration and
jubilation as a holiday. There are
You could possible. I’m
even scare the convinced few rules at Mema’s house, but
the most important of them is that,
boogeyman that the
into buying a concept is so long as you are under her roof,
nobody will ever feel unwelcome,
night light, but hardwired
do you practice into her unhappy, or unloved. A hello and
a hug will let you know that you
composure, DNA
strength, and compassion to such because it comes to her almost as are in the right place; a game of
Uno or Rummikub will remind
a degree that those traits embed naturally as breathing. Sometimes,
themselves in the genes of over we can get tired of being nice to you whose house it is; and a
healthy helping of Chicken Bits
three generations and counting? everybody we encounter, but not
You may be strong, but are you her. If you are feeling down and and Tater Tot Casserole guarantees
that nobody ends the day on an
Mema strong? Of course, it wasn’t need someone to go to, you can bet
easy, and she couldn’t do it all that Mema has some love, cooked empty stomach. But perhaps the
most striking aspect of the house
alone, but this was one of the most and ready to serve, 24/7. When it
important things that Mema taught comes to compassion, the door is is its tranquility, peacefulness, and
constant comfort. After all the time
me: no matter how strong you always open at Mema’s. Regardless
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