December 2, 2024 • 11 mins
Memories are there to remind us that nothing lasts forever. ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, it's Delilah.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Thank you for stopping by.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I have put together some of.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
My favorite radio moments here to share with you on
our daily podcast, do Love. Hey, it's Delilah. Memories can
torment us, or they can be a precious gift. If
(00:26):
you look at memories as a gift, they are there
to remind us that nothing lasts forever. Nothing nothing last
forever except for love. Time is precious. It's a gift
that should not be wasted. So enjoy your life, invest
yourself fully in the folks that you love, and use
(00:50):
the time wisely while you are given this gift.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Hi, good evening is this Clara? Yes, Clara, it's delay.
How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm fine? How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Merry Christmas?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So do you have a wonderful tradition or memory?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I do.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I have a great memory. My paternal grandparents were such
a blessing to me, and we would have My grandfather
was in law enforcement and twelve of those years he
was chief, so he was able to reserve the city
hall at Christmas time and that would be our family reunion,
and I mean family would come from out of town.
(01:30):
We would have it all lined up with all these
great big banquet tables and centerpieces and decorations galore. All
the children had to do something. Usually I would sing,
and but we all had to do something, you know,
and everything, and we'd have a wonderful dinner. And but
there is one Christmas and we did this for quite
(01:52):
quite a few years.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So Grandpa pulled a few strings. He got to City Hall.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yeah, the stage.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
There was a stage and everything where the kids could
get up and, you know, do sing a song or dance.
Or my aunt Sherry, that was a little older, she
did the Charleston one year and.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Had a little talent show.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yes, And I have one memory. My grandfather was really
big in stature, and he's bending down and he's dancing
with me, and Christmas music is playing off in the distance,
you know, and we're dancing, and I look up at
my grandfather and he's looking down at me, and tears
(02:38):
are just streaming down his face as he's looking at
me so lovingly. I can close my eyes and I'm
back there again. It's just a beautiful memory for me.
They have since gone on to, you know, our heavenly home,
and but I cherished those days that I spent with
(02:58):
my grandparents. We lived in the same neighborhood. I've seen
my grandparents probably two and three times a day for
the first five years of my life. So I am
so blessed to have had that.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Do have those memories and have that Yes.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
And I just wanted you to wanted to dedicate you know,
have you pick out a song for my grandma and grandpa,
Henry and Edith. They were just wonderful, wonderful grandparents. My
grandmother when she went to hug you, she didn't hold
anything back. She was just just loving, just wonderful people.
(03:36):
And I just adored them. They meant so much to me.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Well, let me play a song in their honor and
in their memory, and thank you for sharing.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Thank you, Delilah. You have a merry, merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Chris Hi, you've called the Delilah Show. Who is this?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Hello, Delilah?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
This is Chuck Hi, Chuck, how are you?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
It's fine. I was hoping you could play a song
for a special lady in my life, my wife for
thirty five years. She's a very special woman. Never let
me down for thirty five years, and it's the greatest
time I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So what's her name, Chuck?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Her name is Lynn. I met her thirty six years
ago on a shrimp factory and fell in love with
her immediately. Her smile lit up the world, and I
knew right at the end that she was the one
for me.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Was she picking shrimp?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Was she like?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
What was she doing at the factory?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah? She worked on the assortment line. I was one
of four guys that worked on a plan of about
one hundred women, and I saw her. She was a
new girl on the line. And when I saw her,
that was it. I knew that she was the one.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Like, seriously, how long after you you saw her did
the reality hit you that this is this is lifelong material.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It wasn't very long, because within six months we were
married and been together ever since. I lost her two
and a half years ago, the sugar diabet us.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But oh my gosh, I thought she was there with you.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
No, not anymore. She's still with me, but she's just
not here physically. But I wanted to let people know
that it's worth it, that that love's out there for you.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh, Chuck, you're breaking my heart.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
A very lucky man. Could you play a Lionel Richie
song for please Delilah, which one, anyone that you could
pick would be fine? That all of them were her
favorite ones. God bless you, Delilah, Chuck, God bless you.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You just broke my heart. Buddy.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Here, I was going to say, all right, put her
on the phone so I can ask her some questions.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I'm gonna have to wait to get to Heaven to
ask her.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yeah, she's a very special person. Wow, I couldn't ask
for anything more.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I am so sorry.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Well, thank you, Elilah. She's watching me now, I know
she is.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I will, please, lionel Ritchie, I will say a prayer
for your heart. What a sweetheart you are.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
She was a sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well, when I get there, I'm gonna I'm gonna look
around and finally in and give her a big hug
and say, do you know how happy you made your husband?
Do you have any clue how much joy you brought
to him?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
A ton?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Amen?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Every day I think about her and all the joy
that she brought me every day. And I've got two
wonderful sons just like her. I'm a very fortunate man.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Hi, Jeremy, this is the Delilah Shaw. What can I
do for you?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Hi, Delilah.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I'm so glad to talk to you finally. I listened
to you every now and the way home work and
hear all those great stories. And I like to share
a story with you that could tell.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Me the story of your life tonight, Jeremy, or one
of them. I'm sure you've got a million.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Well that sticks my mind more than anything. It's just well,
first of all, I'm twenty years old, working my way
through college and everything. But I had received a job
last November, job that truly had changed my life. I
was lucky enough to become a kind of caretaker for
a lady who we call called Nina. And when I
(07:19):
first took the job, she was in great health. I mean,
this lady was just a picture of health. She was
ninety four years old, not a thing wrong with her.
Thirty five years ago she fought breast cancer when they
didn't really know what it was, and with it like
you wouldn't believe. She was just an amazing woman. And
I worked with her. I was spending because she was
in the hospital. I was spending more from tennis twelve
(07:40):
hours a day with her, working with her in physical therapy, medication,
things like that. And he got her to a better
hospital and everything, but finally, you know, she fought, she fought,
but finally it just really started getting to her and
we kind of knew there wasn't much else we could do,
and she wanted to go home. I left, I left
my position. I've taking care of her in February, but
(08:02):
still was her regularly on the weekends. And she passed
away this last April. And it's just ever since then,
especially now that I'm getting ready to go back to college,
it's just like she's been talking to me every night
she is there. I learned so much and grew so much,
and it was just five months that I was with her.
It was just amazing that someone can touch your life
that much. And you know, I just I want everybody
(08:24):
kind of my generation to know and to respect her
generation of how tough they are and what they have
to endure, what they have endured, and just to truly
appreciate them.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Wow, Jeremy, what a wonderful story.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
If it really, I mean, And and you call her Nina.
We called her Nina, Yeah, that was her lastual name
was Lena, and we would call it this. She always
wanted to be called Nina because she could never pronounce
her own name very well so ever since from childhood.
I mean she was ninety four years old, and I
and I lie not that she could tell you stories
pursuing she was seven eight years old.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I will find a special song in her honor, and
I will certainly reiterate the message of love that you share.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
I appreciate Elilah. You have a great show and keep
going on.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You have a good night, you do, Tim, thank you
for your patience.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Delilah.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Share your story with us.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
We're great great. Well do you remember when cabbage patch
dolls were famous?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Boy, though, when they first came out. I was helping
Santa Claus in one of the local grocery stores at
a strip mall, and all the shoppers were rushing by,
hardly even new that Santa was there.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Rush rush, rush, yes.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Yes, but I spotted three kids in line that looked
like they were covered with yesterday's mud. And the youngest
of them came up and sat on Santa His lap,
and she had a few things to say, But I
think one of the most important things she said was
she wanted a cabbage patch doll, and she was just shaken,
(10:13):
you know, quivering because of the anxiety of being on
Santa's lap. I suppose, well another sibling was probably at
that age where he wasn't sure what to think about
Santa Claus, and he came up and just kind of
(10:35):
lean on my one leg rather than sit on my lap.
And I remember what he said was that, you know, Santa,
I understand the times are tough. And he said, you know,
even even you might have a hard time making Christmas
special for everybody. So he said, if if you can't
(11:00):
bring me anything, at least bring my sister that cabbage
patch doll. And you know, to this day, I get
teary I just thinking of that.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So he wasn't concerned about what he was getting on
that his sister's prayers would be.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Here, could care less. And that's what Christmas is all about.
It's not it's not all the rushing around, all the
lights and tinsel. It's the spirit of love to the
point where you just, you know, don't really care about
what you'll get, just so much as what you can
(11:36):
give to that other person.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you. I'll share
more with you each weekday on Hey, it's Delilah
Hey, it's Delilah.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Thank you for stopping by.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I have put together some of.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
My favorite radio moments here to share with you on
our daily podcast, do Love. Hey, it's Delilah. Memories can
torment us, or they can be a precious gift. If
(00:26):
you look at memories as a gift, they are there
to remind us that nothing lasts forever. Nothing nothing last
forever except for love. Time is precious. It's a gift
that should not be wasted. So enjoy your life, invest
yourself fully in the folks that you love, and use
(00:50):
the time wisely while you are given this gift.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Hi, good evening is this Clara? Yes, Clara, it's delay.
How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm fine? How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Merry Christmas?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So do you have a wonderful tradition or memory?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I do.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I have a great memory. My paternal grandparents were such
a blessing to me, and we would have My grandfather
was in law enforcement and twelve of those years he
was chief, so he was able to reserve the city
hall at Christmas time and that would be our family reunion,
and I mean family would come from out of town.
(01:30):
We would have it all lined up with all these
great big banquet tables and centerpieces and decorations galore. All
the children had to do something. Usually I would sing,
and but we all had to do something, you know,
and everything, and we'd have a wonderful dinner. And but
there is one Christmas and we did this for quite
(01:52):
quite a few years.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So Grandpa pulled a few strings. He got to City Hall.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yeah, the stage.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
There was a stage and everything where the kids could
get up and, you know, do sing a song or dance.
Or my aunt Sherry, that was a little older, she
did the Charleston one year and.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Had a little talent show.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yes, And I have one memory. My grandfather was really
big in stature, and he's bending down and he's dancing
with me, and Christmas music is playing off in the distance,
you know, and we're dancing, and I look up at
my grandfather and he's looking down at me, and tears
(02:38):
are just streaming down his face as he's looking at
me so lovingly. I can close my eyes and I'm
back there again. It's just a beautiful memory for me.
They have since gone on to, you know, our heavenly home,
and but I cherished those days that I spent with
(02:58):
my grandparents. We lived in the same neighborhood. I've seen
my grandparents probably two and three times a day for
the first five years of my life. So I am
so blessed to have had that.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Do have those memories and have that Yes.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
And I just wanted you to wanted to dedicate you know,
have you pick out a song for my grandma and grandpa,
Henry and Edith. They were just wonderful, wonderful grandparents. My
grandmother when she went to hug you, she didn't hold
anything back. She was just just loving, just wonderful people.
(03:36):
And I just adored them. They meant so much to me.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Well, let me play a song in their honor and
in their memory, and thank you for sharing.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Thank you, Delilah. You have a merry, merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Chris Hi, you've called the Delilah Show. Who is this?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Hello, Delilah?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
This is Chuck Hi, Chuck, how are you?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
It's fine. I was hoping you could play a song
for a special lady in my life, my wife for
thirty five years. She's a very special woman. Never let
me down for thirty five years, and it's the greatest
time I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So what's her name, Chuck?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Her name is Lynn. I met her thirty six years
ago on a shrimp factory and fell in love with
her immediately. Her smile lit up the world, and I
knew right at the end that she was the one
for me.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Was she picking shrimp?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Was she like?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
What was she doing at the factory?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah? She worked on the assortment line. I was one
of four guys that worked on a plan of about
one hundred women, and I saw her. She was a
new girl on the line. And when I saw her,
that was it. I knew that she was the one.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Like, seriously, how long after you you saw her did
the reality hit you that this is this is lifelong material.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It wasn't very long, because within six months we were
married and been together ever since. I lost her two
and a half years ago, the sugar diabet us.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But oh my gosh, I thought she was there with you.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
No, not anymore. She's still with me, but she's just
not here physically. But I wanted to let people know
that it's worth it, that that love's out there for you.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh, Chuck, you're breaking my heart.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
A very lucky man. Could you play a Lionel Richie
song for please Delilah, which one, anyone that you could
pick would be fine? That all of them were her
favorite ones. God bless you, Delilah, Chuck, God bless you.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You just broke my heart. Buddy.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Here, I was going to say, all right, put her
on the phone so I can ask her some questions.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I'm gonna have to wait to get to Heaven to
ask her.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yeah, she's a very special person. Wow, I couldn't ask
for anything more.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I am so sorry.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Well, thank you, Elilah. She's watching me now, I know
she is.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I will, please, lionel Ritchie, I will say a prayer
for your heart. What a sweetheart you are.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
She was a sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well, when I get there, I'm gonna I'm gonna look
around and finally in and give her a big hug
and say, do you know how happy you made your husband?
Do you have any clue how much joy you brought
to him?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
A ton?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Amen?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Every day I think about her and all the joy
that she brought me every day. And I've got two
wonderful sons just like her. I'm a very fortunate man.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Hi, Jeremy, this is the Delilah Shaw. What can I
do for you?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Hi, Delilah.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I'm so glad to talk to you finally. I listened
to you every now and the way home work and
hear all those great stories. And I like to share
a story with you that could tell.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Me the story of your life tonight, Jeremy, or one
of them. I'm sure you've got a million.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Well that sticks my mind more than anything. It's just well,
first of all, I'm twenty years old, working my way
through college and everything. But I had received a job
last November, job that truly had changed my life. I
was lucky enough to become a kind of caretaker for
a lady who we call called Nina. And when I
(07:19):
first took the job, she was in great health. I mean,
this lady was just a picture of health. She was
ninety four years old, not a thing wrong with her.
Thirty five years ago she fought breast cancer when they
didn't really know what it was, and with it like
you wouldn't believe. She was just an amazing woman. And
I worked with her. I was spending because she was
in the hospital. I was spending more from tennis twelve
(07:40):
hours a day with her, working with her in physical therapy, medication,
things like that. And he got her to a better
hospital and everything, but finally, you know, she fought, she fought,
but finally it just really started getting to her and
we kind of knew there wasn't much else we could do,
and she wanted to go home. I left, I left
my position. I've taking care of her in February, but
(08:02):
still was her regularly on the weekends. And she passed
away this last April. And it's just ever since then,
especially now that I'm getting ready to go back to college,
it's just like she's been talking to me every night
she is there. I learned so much and grew so much,
and it was just five months that I was with her.
It was just amazing that someone can touch your life
that much. And you know, I just I want everybody
(08:24):
kind of my generation to know and to respect her
generation of how tough they are and what they have
to endure, what they have endured, and just to truly
appreciate them.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Wow, Jeremy, what a wonderful story.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
If it really, I mean, And and you call her Nina.
We called her Nina, Yeah, that was her lastual name
was Lena, and we would call it this. She always
wanted to be called Nina because she could never pronounce
her own name very well so ever since from childhood.
I mean she was ninety four years old, and I
and I lie not that she could tell you stories
pursuing she was seven eight years old.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I will find a special song in her honor, and
I will certainly reiterate the message of love that you share.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
I appreciate Elilah. You have a great show and keep
going on.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You have a good night, you do, Tim, thank you
for your patience.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Delilah.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Share your story with us.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
We're great great. Well do you remember when cabbage patch
dolls were famous?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Boy, though, when they first came out. I was helping
Santa Claus in one of the local grocery stores at
a strip mall, and all the shoppers were rushing by,
hardly even new that Santa was there.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Rush rush, rush, yes.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Yes, but I spotted three kids in line that looked
like they were covered with yesterday's mud. And the youngest
of them came up and sat on Santa His lap,
and she had a few things to say, But I
think one of the most important things she said was
she wanted a cabbage patch doll, and she was just shaken,
(10:13):
you know, quivering because of the anxiety of being on
Santa's lap. I suppose, well another sibling was probably at
that age where he wasn't sure what to think about
Santa Claus, and he came up and just kind of
(10:35):
lean on my one leg rather than sit on my lap.
And I remember what he said was that, you know, Santa,
I understand the times are tough. And he said, you know,
even even you might have a hard time making Christmas
special for everybody. So he said, if if you can't
(11:00):
bring me anything, at least bring my sister that cabbage
patch doll. And you know, to this day, I get
teary I just thinking of that.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So he wasn't concerned about what he was getting on
that his sister's prayers would be.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Here, could care less. And that's what Christmas is all about.
It's not it's not all the rushing around, all the
lights and tinsel. It's the spirit of love to the
point where you just, you know, don't really care about
what you'll get, just so much as what you can
(11:36):
give to that other person.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you. I'll share
more with you each weekday on Hey, it's Delilah
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