Good morning! So happy to see you! Today I would like to celebrate President Jimmy Carter‘s life. I just learned that President Carter is in hospice care at home. He is 98 years old. I thought that meant he would only be around a week or two. But I didn’t t realize that a person could be there for six months or finish a diagnosis of a terminal disease.
He has been married for 70 years! Can you imagine? That is longer than many people live!
There is that infamous photo of living presidents. At the end of the line is President Carter a few steps away from the rest of them. I’m not sure why a man who continued to teach Sunday School until recently would do that. But how powerful a statement that was.
Our 39th president was building houses not that long ago. Frankly, I can’t imagine building houses now. Or 20 years ago.
After President Carter left office, he traveled the world to oversee elections. We could use a man of his integrity to watch American elections now. In 2002, our president won the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian efforts.
He was a civil rights activist. He forgave Vietnam War draft evaders on his second. day in office. In his spare time, President carter wrote 30 books including two about the e Israeli–Palestinian conflict. And he condemned the Israeli actions against the Palestinians as apartheid.
His was a life well lived. Feel free to share a memory of President Jimmy Carter here, if you want.
Stay Well, Stay Safe, You & Yours,
Gloria
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