So yesterday, I was watching this song on You Tube. Seo Linn – Óró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile

One of my favorite songs. Anyway, thought I might comment, since I have Irish Ancestry. Instead I suddenly had the idea to DuckDuckGo my grandfather. Did his info pop right up, complete with picture? Yes. I was stunned and teared up. My DD called me later to tell me she had just discovered that my brother had died in 2020, in the Phillippines where he has lived since retiring from the Air Force way back when. There’s a place called FindAGrave.com and apparently you can add info if it’s someone you know. It was very interesting. Anyway, she is apparently into this stuff and we wound up finding info about a lot of family members. But tonight I was feeling kind of down and I realize, it was my grandfather. His picture was just right there and I miss him. He died when I was eight. Decades ago, but he was good to me and even though I rarely think of him, he was a big part of my life. He used to go on drinking binges, and would be gone for a few days or whatever. I was only four or five so time had no meaning to me, but once he told me he was going away for a bit, and I asked him to bring me back a pair of red shoes. And he did.

Here he is. Napoleon Bonaparte Gage. Who names their Irish ancestry kid after Napoleon? They called him Poley. He was a good grandfather. I am sad.