A Tribute to my GRANDPA MOODY.

This last week my Grandpa Moody passed through this life and into the next. My Mom's Dad was 86 years old and he has been suffering with Alzheimers' for many years. He suffered

a lot of pain in the end so we were all praying for him to be relieved of it. I have had many wonderful memories with my Gramps and Granny and I love him very much. Death is never easy for anyone (especially me) but I am so grateful for the comfort it is to know that he is still with us and we will be together again. I love you Gramps. I was blessed to have been able to be

in Arizona for the funeral, for 24 hours, it was a quick trip but it was so worth being there with all my Moody family (no, not moody as in grumpy). The funeral was so wonderful to hear memories of my Grandpa as my mom and aunts and uncles spoke about him. He was such a simple man. He didn't need the things of the world, all he needed was his family and a garden. He was an extreme health nut who loved to serve others and he had such a unique sense of humor. His poems and sayings that he wrote are hilarious. I loved seeing all my cousins that I hadn't seen in 10 years and I have so many fun and wonderful memories with them. It was a wonderful reunion with them. Thank you Mom and Dad for flying me to AZ to be with you all. Thank you Nana for watching Noah sleep for 4 hours! And a big thank you to Sheree, Vanessa and Boo for watching my girls so Adam could study for BOARDS today! It was worth suffering through the flight home and NOAH THROWING UP AND DIARRHEA EVERYWHERE! That in itself is another post. ha!

Here is one of my Grandpa's hilarious poems that I want to share with you:

"Let's clean up the world"

"Let's all get rid of pornography," I heard a great leader say,

And his words were very much with me as I went to work one day.

I'm a plasterer by trade, and they sent me to patch up a wall in this place,

It was a room where they restored old paintings, several of them were a disgrace.

They were ancient paintings of naked woman and a man,

I was ashamed to work in the place.

And I mentioned the paintings should have on some clothes,

And you should have seen the look on the manager's face.

"The subjects aren't naked," he answered.

"They are rightly called , 'in the nude'."

By now, I was really disgusted.

You might say, I was coming unglued.

"A great artist created those paintings,

And the viewer needs to have a clean mind."

But to me, they were obscene paintings.

They just were the ancient kind.

I tell you, my head was a swimmin'.

This didn't make sense at all.

This feller was readin' the good books,

But a naked woman hung there on the wall.

I sure wish someone would tell me,

How nude paintings of the past are immune,

And never once thought to be "no no's,"

While naked moderns are way out of tune?

I guess I'm a little old-fashioned,

But if a man's naked in Rome or in France,

And they painted his body 2,000 years ago,

I still say, "The fellar needs pants."

I talked to the school director

And told him that I didn't like that feller in the nude,

And I told him if he'd give me the power,

I'd sure put some clothes on that dude.

So my feelings about pornography are,

"Clean up our world here today,

But don't drag out some raunchy paintings from the past,

And try to tell me that they're O.K. "

Robert Bruce Moody