He's getting ready to start tending to his garden, still lives in the only house he's ever owned, goes for at least one walk every day, is a member of an awesome mall food-court club, sets his own fashion rules, and best of all... can and will dance all night long at every opportunity! Ladies, if you want to learn how to Polka - this is your man!
I often wonder what goes through the mind of an 87 year old who grew up in Poland, began his WWII service as a 16 year old, lost much of his family during the war, waited for his number to be called to "go to a new land", randomly ended up on a Lethbridge homestead of all Commonwealth cities accepting war immigrants, moved to Winnipeg where he met a beautiful and wonderful woman with a similar story, married, had two children that he hardly saw grow up because he worked the night shift building rail lines (including the one that runs in front of my house), located a sister through the Red Cross who had made it on a boat to South Africa, worked, retired, lost his stomach to cancer, tragically lost his wife to an allergic reaction during routine low-risk surgery, quit smoking and regained his health, and now has four grandchildren between the ages of 10 and 29.
They say a picture is worth 1000 words. This portrait of my Dziedzio looking out his bedroom window is one of my all time personal favourites.
Posted by Dallas Ludwick, f/action member
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