Simple phrases often become an adage for generations to respect or rally around, but sometimes deserving quotes are forgotten and through non-use, fade away and are all but lost until an appropriate moment necessitates a recall.
We were going to Elizabethtown and were driving along Dixie Highway near West Point when my mother noticed an old railroad bridge off to the right of Dixie Highway.
“I always worried about that bridge when I came down on the train to visit Aunt Teen.” she said. “I was a little girl and I thought surely it would fall down when we crossed it, but it’s still there. That was fifty years ago.”
Then she laughed and remarked, “There was a sign in the cafeteria where I worked at Stewart’s. It helped me understand that bridge and a lot of other things. It said, “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday and all is well.”
I don’t know who penned that phrase but I am putting it in my collection of SOUTHERN DRAWLS, a series of words to live by and phrases to remember because todays, tomorrows, mothers, and railroad bridges give great meanings to life.