July 25, 1963
Thursday, hot and sunny, 88, humid. Carol and I went to Oneonta took machine (sewing) to have fixed and did shopping. Ina Belle was here at night.
Comment: Ina Belle Hubbard, born August 16, 1916, died May 5, 1985, at age 70. Just did some quick calculations and here is a list of the folks in my Dad's family who died when they were younger than I am now, 82 & 10 months: Grandma Agnes 67, Madeline 51, Glendon Ellis 45, Merel SR 72, Uncle Earl 58, Ina Bell 70, Aunt Winnie 59, Glenn Taylor 22, Baby David Taylor 1. And in my immediate family, Brother Doug, 75, Brother Wayne 59. Only lucky people get old.
The Dalai Lama when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered, "Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived." I hope all of us still living can escape that fate....... Here is a picture of Ina Bell and Evelyn as young women on the Hill.....
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