Gina Carano Instagram – Some words today on the anniversary of my grandfathers passing last year.
I miss you, I miss you slapping my knee and sayin “how ya doin baby?” and how’d you put your hand on your forehead, shake your head and pretend to be shocked at all our crazy stories, I miss how you’d wait until everyone was done talking to drop the most enlightening words in the whole conversation in just a few sentences, I miss how I couldn’t hide anything from you, your eyes looked right through me, I miss how you didn’t judge any of us through our troubled phases, you just loved harder and looked for a solution, I miss PB & J’s, and angel food cake drowned in milk for our desert, I miss just knowing you were on this planet and how much safer I felt to come home and visit and have all the world drift away the moment I walked through your door.
I miss your stories and wishing I could’ve been a fly on the wall in watching your incredible 95 years of life, I miss watching you tease Gmama and then holding her up as your Queen and loving her till the very end…
but right now what I think I miss most of all is holding your hand, I could hold your hand for the longest time and you squeezed it tight and wouldn’t let go until I did. I’m glad I got to lay next to you and hold your hand those last days you were here.
You were beyond words and incredible human being and my memories of you now are so vivid, when I think of you I know you were showing us how to approach life, how bad things happen and we still must find a way to live and look for the best in every situation and never give up.
You never gave up, not even in those last days, I’ve never in my life seen a mind so strong and not willing to let go of this precious life. You did not take life for granted and you put your family before everything. I want to make you so proud still. You inspire me now more than ever. You were only ever Papa to me, I never once called you Jack but I will forever love your name. And today, I just really really achingly miss you Papa..
Live each day out of respect for the ones we lost. ❤️💎
This was his favorite song. And I will always love you by Whitney Houston. | Posted on 05/Feb/2025 11:38:09
