..Rosezelle is back in Kentucky. Her 96 year old aunt is dying. It's hard to believe that a person could live to be ninety six years old. Yet this lady did and though she never hard any children of her own, she raised all of the orphan and semi-orphan children in Rosezelle's family,..including Rosezelle,..herself. So now she is ninety six years old and dying of kidney failure and all of these children, who were not born to her, but whose lives she somehow made more livable, are coming back to her to see her off.
..From a three room shack in the kentucky mountains, a frail, little,..bent over Kentucky Hillbilly woman, who was LUCKY to go eight grades of school, is being mourned over by four generations of folks, whose lives she influenced and changed for the better in some way!! Her "children" include two karate and marial arts experts, an "MA" in social work, who is also my co-author, three ministers, six school teachers,..an inventor,.. a country music star, who would sue me if I mentioned his name,..countless other relatives, whose families were taken in when no one else would have them,...and one angry hearing impaired woman, who goes by the nickname of Stanelle. Buzzybee, Rosezelle's nic,...gave me the privilage of being introduced to this little lady last year.
..I saw her little three roomed shack, which had not been changed much since the Depression,..ate toast and fried eggs with her..both made over a KITCHEN fire in her stove,..and listened to her say to me, "Stanelle,..thar's thangs about you that I can't explain! Thar's an anger in yuh! Yer hearts a'fire! Don't let it burn you up!"
That REALLY creeped me out!!
I later asked the Buzzybee, "Have you told your Auntie..anything about me at all?"
"No!" Rosezelle said to me, "But you must remember, her father was the mountain witch,..known as Black Heart. Auntie sometimes knows things about people and no one knows where she gets her information from!!"
Rosezelle's next book is entitled, BLACK HEART: TALES FROM THE EASTERN KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS! I should not wonder that a man, named Black Heart, had a daughter, who looked at me once and knew about my life long anger over being different. I do wonder at the fact that that daughter took in dozens of stray children and raised them or paid for their schooling. Good comes out of evil ...sometimes,..I guess!
Goodby, Rosezelle's Auntie! Goodby Black Heart's Daughter! After ninety six years here on earth,...I hope that whatever you believed was the afterlife....gives you what you expected!! The thing about anger in a person's heart is not that it exists, but what that person, in whose heart the anger exists, does with that anger!! Funny that "Auntie" should see something that I have had hidden away for over forty years!! As Nellie used to say to me, "Life is more than what you see!!"
For anyone, besides me,..who is reading this blog. This is all true. Strange things and even stranger people can happen in this world, whether folks believe in them or not!!