birthday surprise

Today was my mom's birthday. She would have been 73. It is hard to imagine, because she is eternally 59 in my mind.

After taking flowers to the graveside today, I wound up driving around town a bit as errands were run.

Wound up at Crosstown, which is a common occurrence. And today it just seemed appropriate. After all, it is the reason she arrived in Memphis as a child, where mom and dad met and where the story of me began.

Stumbled across a set of doors I had not seen open to the public before and found the elevator that mom and dad met on back in the day. I know it was that elevator because I remember the location when I got a tour of the old Sears building before it became Crosstown Concourse.

That in itself would be cool, but there is also a framed picture with her in it just outside the elevator doors. Still there in the place she met dad and a happy little hello today from her to me on her birthday.