Twenty Something | 80-year-old grandfather shows how to embrace each day
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Leave it to Grandpa to put things in perspective.
It was halfway through our second annual Christmas party, and I was flitting around, refilling glasses and collecting empty plates.
Preparing for the party had kept me moving — wrapping presents, baking shortbread cookies, stringing 3,200 white lights on our Blue Spruce. Not exactly meditating to Silent Night.
I brought some water to Grandpa, who was sitting in the corner facing everyone, and sat down beside him.
“Look,” he instructed me, his blue eyes misty. “What do you see?”
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