To my grandfathers, I never met either of you sadly but I bet you were awesome sharp insightful leaders of humanity

Dear Grandfather on my father's side,
Your name is Bertrum.  You looked like a stern and relationship orientated fellow in the wedding photo that displays you with my grandmother, Gertrude Limesider-Brenner.   I believe that you were a great leader of men.    You may have had little access to riches and you may have little afflunce in the learnings you have encountered, but your purpose was to have a family and you indeed had 3 sons.  Sadly your middle son, Norman became niftar (deceased) at age 42 due to heart disease.  He had smoked 3 packs a day but he was the child that loved family more than anything.  He was a painter and operated and I think owned a paint business.   He was a star and he had 3 children, 2 daughters and one son who all loved him like there was noone in the sky but Norman.  That said, I admire the values your sons all displayed.  Ingenuity, interesting conversation, collateral thinking, money concerns that were justified in all areas of living.   They are all humans who shaped my own busy place in the universe today. (well blogging about 400 blog enteries since September must be a busy day, right?). That said, I miss that fact that you never met myself or knew of my birth.  You passed in your 50s I think.  Your family was devistated.  You son, my father Jerry gets choked up to talk about you.  He loved you immensely.  My father and his brothers were all mischevious.  You must have been a real smartalek I bet.  I can see your smile in the photographs.  You were on top of you day.  You actually offered a conservative bar mitzvah to your 3 sons, all 3.  They were sharp brilliant children.  I am quite sure that your third son had a bar mitzvah, Robert.  If not, it was not your concern as I believe you may have passed before that year.   May it be that you be remembered among the righteous of our people.

To my grandfather on my mothers side, Charlie, born Samuel Rosenberg:
You are a king among men.  Your wife, my grandmother was the most benevolent pleasing and happy of ladies I have met in my lifetime.  She smiled a lot and she even smiled when I was a real pain to the human race, a stupid thinking kid who had no life ambitions other than his next toy or his next crab meal which you know damn well is not our way.  I may apologize that I did not get your contributions entirely until I was much older.  You instilled a strong work ethic in your son, David.  He is employed and active socially as well as in a challenging changing business that he has remarkably lead for the last 35 and probably more years.   He is a leader among men.  He served amiably for many years as a Captain in the Air Force.  He even has good taste in cars as he once drove an orange shining porsche.  He loved that vehicle I bet.  I bet that you (Charlie) were a strong coinneusseur of all that smiled back at you.  You loved to read and I have leaned that you loved Robert Browning. I will try to read some of his work in my time.  I also happened to find surprisingly a copy of your book "A Merchant in Venice" by Charles Dickens.  Its special to me.  You signed your name.  That is about the only thing I own that your hands have contacted materially in this world.  You made a special woman out of my mother.  She is a smart woman who loves to spend time with family, loves the culinary arts in some special terms and she loved her mother.  My mother was special and she knows it.   You made her feel so.  You worked in a light store for some time.  In fact, your forte was that you were an English Teacher. You are rumored to have been a diligent student of the Hebrew bible.  That is impressive.  I am saddened that the whereabouts of your Tanakh are unknown that I am aware.  Your son is an amazing father who loves all 3 of his children.  One is a 20 some year old now and has moderate autism.   Your grandson, Matthew whom I speak is an industrius and competant landscaper who loves to watch movies and spend time with his mother and father.  Your 2 granddaughters are intelligent and well informed about life.  They have both attended college and pursue now careers in their areas of pleasure and interst.  One is indeed a marathon runner.  Thats a commitment that requires some intense concentration and strength.  Your genes are nothing to sneeze at huh? :)  I must say that I am glad that I know more about you and I can only hope that my Uncle David will tell me more in the future.  Again, it is clear you told him to work diligently.  That has been relayed to me in detail more than a couple of times.   May your memory be for a blessing in this world and may you be in the holiest of enclaves in the world to come.  I am proud to be your grandson.
Lovingly yours,
Craig Brenner