All Souls Day

Here in Italia this is an important day to remember our ancestors and those who have gone before. I think of my dear grandparents. Marie Roselyn Kelly who came from Ireland as a brave young lady of thirteen , to make a new life in Canada. She married Gordon Baker Smith, a big barrel of a man who worked his whole life at the Goodyear Tire plant in Toronto, and my grandfather Bernhard Carl Axelson, who worked so hard all his life to provide for his dear sweet daughter, my mother and his wife Ada May. Their love and efforts are not forgotten in these days of my opportunities and gifts; as I weave my way through a life of adventure, travel and discovery. I thank them on this day of all souls, for all they have given and their care and love that I continue to feel in my own time here on this planet. Grazie.