Does anyone else like polishing shoes?.....

[mrmpa]

7. My 86 year old mom's doctor...........

is originally from India, one of the smartest diagnostician I've met. Well anyway he is the nattiest dresser. I once looked at his shoes, they were cordovan and had the highest shine I had seen in quite awhile.

I asked who shines his shoes, he told me he does, he "finds it relaxing."

I remember reading an anecdote once. A man with 4 children lost his mother. After coming home from the funeral home, he found a neighbor in his house, polishing the shoes of all the children plus his and his wife's.

The neighbor told him, there's not much I can do or say to you, but I can do this.

I've tried to remember that when I've had friends who have lost someone. I have a friend who is a nun, she lost her dad, her last parent. She lived about 200 miles from home and couldn't leave for a day or two. I picked her up and took her for a small hike through a local park. There wasn't anything I could say, but I could do that.