Sunday, March 5, 2023
A favorite memory of mine is my first experience with her by letter. Carol had seen an interview program on our local fishing village in SE coastal Alaska, and our postmistress. My family didn't live in the village, we lived out in the bush, a wilderness lifestyle, by ourselves, but we went to the village once a week, weather allowing, to get mail brought in by floatplane, (Our only way of travel is boat or floatplane there are no roads.) Well, one day, getting the mail in our village, the postmistress said she'd gotten a very interesting letter from a woman who loved Alaska and would like to write to the woman she'd seen in the interview. The postmistress said that regrettably she didn't have the time, so would I take the letter and respond? I had an extensive correspondence so she thought me the likely person to ask, she said. So I wrote to this "Carol", telling her about my life, asking about hers. She wrote right back, and from those first letters exchanged we became firm, forever - friends! Carol was just that way. And, she'd lived one of the most interesting lives I'd ever heard of. I so enjoyed getting to know about her and the family she loved so very, very, much! She had an undying curiosity and sincere interest in everything Alaska, and we shared that. She also talked about her love of, and, interest in God and the Bible. We shared that too. I never got to meet her face to face, but it's one of the things I most look forward to in the resurrection, (Acts 24:15) - to life on earth when she comes home again, and I get to see her in person, and, meet her beloved Jack. Carol was a one of a kind person,and I'll always be thankful she wrote that letter wanting to know about Alaska.... I know everyone misses Carol, and oh, so do i.......!
