Life: A Brief Candle or a Splendid Torch.......

Today's mail brought a card from Frankie's daughter up in Ohio. Lovely card, thanking us for being such good friends with her mother. She also enclosed some photographs of Frankie when she was younger..... every photo of Frankie that I see shows how full-of-life she truly was.

Along with the photos, Frankie's daughter tucked a copy of a slip of paper that she found in her mother's jewelry box. Interesting quote, and so much like Frankie. The author of the following quote is unknown, but it's from a 1907 speech given in Brighton, England ----

"My life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."


Frankie was more like a splendid torch, definitely not a brief candle.