Never Forget Mrs. J!!

I'm spending too much time thinking today.  So I'm going to nap soon...to stop the thinking.  :-p  I got the news that my elementary school teacher passed away yesterday morning.  She was one of those eternally joyous entities that enters your life for a little while & while she may physically leave, she's always a part of you.  She was the one that bred my LOVE of music.  1-5 grade, daily music class.  4th & 5th grade, I was in the choir.  I remember the tryouts.  I was refusing to do it...cuz I knew I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket!  She made everyone leave the room & she hid behind the stage curtain & she said to me..."Baby, you sing to me...or to whoever you want to...nobody is here.  It's just you & your spirit."  I sang to her.  I was horrible!  And she put me in the choir.  ;-)  She lived 2 houses down from me from 1st grade until I left that town at 25.  She was a part of my world for so long--a constant figure.  And after I stopped seeing her, I always still felt her.  It utterly amazes me how someone can affect who you are SO greatly!!  So...I sang to her this afternoon...& I STILL can't carry a tune in a bucket!  But I know she's there, hiding behind that curtain, listening to me & smiling that huge smile of hers.  50+ years of teaching children music...there is a fantastically GRAND choir singing her home right now...  ~  ♥❤♥❤♥  ~

Her car looked like this.  She had the same car since the day I met her!  EVERYONE in town automatically knew her on sight!!  Those were the days...