112

My grandfather, Silas Marshall Lowe, SR., would be 112 today, April 19, 2024. It is not likely that a man would live that long in this day and age. However, every year on this day I think of him. I think about the things he taught me. I think about the things he did with me. I think about what he wanted to leave me on his exit from the earth. He was 67 when he left this earth.

On this day I also think about my father, Silas Marshall Lowe, Jr.. I have many of the same thoughts as about grandpa, but with more brevity as I reserve those deeper thoughts for dad's birthday. Dad would be 82 this year. His day of birth is also the 19th day in his birth month. Dad left this earth at age 43.

I am the third (III). I share their name. I share the 19th as my day of birth in my birth month. I am 62. I do not have a son (IV), so the name ends with me. What is the impact of a life? What difference does one life make? While I realize their impact on me, my story is still being written.