Laying there, looking up at the big country sky, I thought about how beautiful the stars were. So many of them glowing in the night, way up there, so far from this world. Why didn’t we ever do this? Just come out here and stare up at these stars. I suddenly felt so small, laying there with my arms outstretched, beneath the night’s expanse; in the center of a vast baseball field.
Yet, so close to death, they all seemed so happy.
~Alexia Richards
~Alexia Richards
RIP Maynard Lance
Sunset Manor in Brush, Colorado
“Well, Miss Alexia. You may not believe this but I am 102 years old.” I felt the hair on the back of my neck stand up as she looked me dead in the eye and said in the most serious of tones, “I’m not sure how much longer I have on God’s green Earth or frankly why I am still here. I have lived through two world wars and when I was your age, colored children were still just that, ain’t nothin’ more. I have seen racism like you wouldn’t believe – a war I lost my dear husband to in 1963. I have no children, I sadly wasn’t able to. But I am here for a reason. I have to believe that, and I try to live each day – even the days I feel closest to death – to the best of my ability. I am truly happy, and that is my story.”
~ Mrs. Ellis in Finding God on Route 11
Sunset Manor in Brush, Colorado
“Well, Miss Alexia. You may not believe this but I am 102 years old.” I felt the hair on the back of my neck stand up as she looked me dead in the eye and said in the most serious of tones, “I’m not sure how much longer I have on God’s green Earth or frankly why I am still here. I have lived through two world wars and when I was your age, colored children were still just that, ain’t nothin’ more. I have seen racism like you wouldn’t believe – a war I lost my dear husband to in 1963. I have no children, I sadly wasn’t able to. But I am here for a reason. I have to believe that, and I try to live each day – even the days I feel closest to death – to the best of my ability. I am truly happy, and that is my story.”
~ Mrs. Ellis in Finding God on Route 11
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IS that Maynard Lance the same one that lived in Perth Amboy, NJ for so many years?
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