Rufus Wroden Gattis

this may have been the last photo of my maternal grandfather, Rufus Wroden....R.W........from a 16mm Minox spy camera negative.....soon after, he was taken to a hospital, diagnosed with prostate cancer.....in his nineties....When he was told that he was too old to go through 'therapy', he left the hospital....still in his hospital 'gown', and began to walk home.....to climb a ladder and paint some window trim that had been 'put off' for decades.....On his 'way' home from the hospital, he entered a trafficy road to rescue a young child that had run into the road to retrieve a rolling rubber ball.....and was bumped by a halting vehicle....breaking his hip....so.....back to the hospital...this time in an ambulance....where he contracted septicemia and died........'R.W." had been my single most influential person, philosophically.....and would endure my persistent questions, answering them with acerbic and hilarious quips and labyrinthine, circuitously didactic tales from his long Lifetime of experience in his Mind......When asked "Why do birds fly?", he replied.....'Well, they're smarter than people, aren't they?" or "Why do plants have flowers?"........."Well, the same reason people have babies...