Last Sunday, Sept. 8, was Grandparent\u2019s Day. In honor of the occasion, here is a continuation of my T.O.A.S.T: Timeless Old Age Senior Tales.<\/p>\n
Ti Nayuyut Para Todo Tatan Bihu Yan Nanan Biha Siha<\/strong> You know they look a little bit like Mom and Dad They led difficult lives and worked hard every day Now they are old, some getting quiet and mellow Old Age Day? or Getting Older and Aged Day?<\/strong><\/p>\n We have National Senior Citizen\u2019s Day on August twenty-first Did they favor an older sister or a younger brother? Are you one now? Do your grandkids live very far away? So Gramps, Grams, grumpy Grandpa, and gentle Grammies Last Sunday, Sept. 8, was Grandparent\u2019s Day. In honor of the occasion, here is a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23567,23568,23569,16625],"class_list":["post-307548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-happy-grandparent","tag-national-senior-citizen","tag-old-age-day","tag-so-gramps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEveryone is praying for our grandparents<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nYes, all our parent\u2019s parents are great and grand
\nto them the world\u2019s cultures show deep respetu
\nyan todu kuttura comprende and understand
\nthis is mas importante from nieta yan nietu.<\/p>\n
\nor do my Mom and Dad look a lot like them?
\nI heard some manaina say they\u2019re feeling very bad
\nsome grandparents have a hearing and vision problem.<\/p>\n
\non farms and in their yards, hauled a lot of water
\nat fiesta times they took some time to enjoy and play
\nand teach kuttura yan kustumbre to son and daughter.<\/p>\n
\nHappy Grandparent\u2019s Day to guella yan guello.<\/p>\n
\nthen there is Grandparent\u2019s Day on the 8th\u00a0day of September
\nbut there is one more holiday for old timers for which I thirst
\nmaybe between Senior and Grandparent\u2019s Day is easy to remember.
\nWe could call it Old Age Day or even Getting Older and Aged Day
\nsometime during the seasons of autumn or winter might be appropriate
\nsome folks are Juniors by name, some won\u2019t become grandparents anyway
\na day for when one realizes parts of mind and body are starting to quit.
\nA day when you can say, I\u2019m in my old age, I\u2019m really getting older
\nYour losing your head hair, it is gone already, or your dying it
\nyour physical and sexual activity is decreasing, not getting any bolder
\nthe business of eating less? exercising more? you\u2019re not even trying it.
\nSo as your short term memory banks fail there is nothing can prevent ya
\nfrom forgetting where you put this and that at onset of senile dementia.
\n\u00a0
\nGRANDPARENTS: BOOMER SONNETS
\nWritten at Blythe, CA Huck Finn Festival on Jan. 18, 2013. This poem was published in the Saipan Tribune several years ago.<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nDo you remember your grandparents, even the in-laws?
\nBoth sides from your biological mother and dad?
\nDid you have special names for them,\u2018Opa\u2019,\u2019Mamaw\u2019, and \u2018Papaw\u2019?
\nDid they always hug and comfort you when you were sad?<\/p>\n
\nWere some dead before you were born or soon after?
\nDid they give you all the same presents or one thing then another?
\nWhen they came by did you know you were in for laughter?<\/p>\n
\nDo you enjoy the drive to see them, like to watch them play?
\nAre your kids not too happy when for a week you\u2019ll stay?
\nAre your grandkids the smartest and cutest no matter what others say?<\/p>\n
\nenjoy your grandkids, sunburned, dirty, or in their jammies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"