When I started thinking about this project and discussing it with my family, my husband had one request. He wanted to be the first person to make a donation in response to the blog.
I kept reminding him that if he wanted to be first, he needed to actually be first! That is, he needed to stop talking and get on the internet and make the actual donation.
Yesterday he did just that - but not the way we'd planned.
Instead of making a donation in honor of my 50th birthday (which he promises he will still do), my husband made a donation to JNF to plant a tree in Israel in memory of his grandfather, who passed away yesterday morning after a brief illness and a very long, wonderful life. Max would have turned 98 next month, on Valentine's Day. He was arguably one of the happiest people I've ever met - always smiling, always ready to share a song (he loved the crooners: Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, etc.). He loved tennis, playing well into his seventies and then continuing to enjoy the game as a spectator, and he loved his family. He was a parent to three, a grandparent to five, and a great-grandparent to seven. He will be missed.
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