the voices

hello all. i spent the weekend playing around with some genealogy and while doing that i decided to open a pkg i got from my cousin Jim. It was a video of pics from his dad funeral, which i loved to see all the pics again, and another video that said it was footage of my grandpa, Paul. i played it not knowing what it would be. i was sitting on the ottoman just in front of the tv and this video of a building comes on and i hear Jim's voice talking about the zoom on the camera as the zoom gets engaged and the building turns blurry because of the zoom being too close, then zoomed back out again. as I am listening to Jim tryin to work the camera, I hear a voice I have not heard since 2003. My grandpa was talking in the back ground. Tears instantly filled me eyes as i hung on every silly word. then my grandpa and uncle Bill come into the screen and I can see them goofing and talking. Luckily this video was only 3 minutes long, because I bawled like a small baby the entire time. The voices that i thought i had lost forever, I was hearing them again. This Christmas the best present I will get is that 3 minutes of video from Jim. i have the voices that I love and miss terribly back and although I know I will probably bawl every time i watch it, i am thrilled to have just 3 minutes every now and then with my grandpa and uncle Bill. Merry Christmas to all my cousins. i hope you all have a safe and wonderful holiday.