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Thanks so much for this video/subject. I’m 60 and my husband passed away 8 years ago. I’ve three grown children. I was worried that the loneliness I feel was because I lost my husband of 27 years. But this made me realize I just miss a lot of things. Especially my late in-laws that lived until their mid 90s. I miss their wisdom and homey home, the cooking smells and their interactions with my children when they were young. How much the world has changed and I miss the old world I lived in. 🙏🏻
Fae I lost my love at age 32 while pregnant .Today I found out our child got into college and made honour roll and I wish he was here with me to rejoice over this.I’ve been remarried and divorced now…and the loneliness lingers but I know I’ll see him again soon enough. Hopefully our children bridge the gap for us ❤❤
I am in my mid 60s and I miss so much too. I think sadly its because so much of my life is behind me now. A lot of joy. Some regrets. Then I think how blessed I am to have those wonderful memories. But I try to remember that God is not through with me yet. If we were done then we would not be here. There are still things we are meant to do. Kind words we are meant to say, encouragement we are meant to give. My Dad asked once why he was still here and Mom was gone. I told him it was because she finished all her chores and he still had some left to do. I believe that. So it's up to us to figure out what we are supposed to do each day and get it done. Find ways to intersect the lives of others. You still have memories to make. God bless all of us who were fortunate to live in simpler days past.
Yes I agree! My children definitely bring me joy and I have one grandson! I thank God daily for my blessings including still cancer free after 4 years. Thanks for your encouragement and sharing🙏🏻🙂
I am the only one left of my family. I get so lonesome to see my grandparents. Sometimes I could cry. But I read once…. Don’t cry because something is over smile because you got to be a part of it.
My mom had an uncle who called it being "the last leaf on the tree." My mom has been the last leaf on the tree for many years now. She does indeed get lonesome.
I feel this for my mother, she is the last one alive of all the elders in our family. We were just talking about this the other day. She will be 89 this July. This video was very touching.
I wish there was a “love” button for youtube. I certainly would be pressing it now. This is one of the best videos you’ve done. I love the pictures, and of course the music. Your dad’s harmony is spot on, just perfect every time. I, like you, miss all the “things of ordinary days” like family get-togethers, playing in the creek and woods, etc.
Just over ten years ago, I named my historic restoration business Hiraeth Restorations. Eventually, I was able to purchase what was my family’s farm from 1724 to 1942(the old house and barn for now). Eighty years after we lost it, I’m back on my native soil in my ancestral home and I don’t feel lonesome anymore.
Those moments of nostalgia hit me at odd times. Leaves a longing of hunger for what was and can never be again. Wonderful nanoseconds in time that I am unable to share with the nearest & dearest to me. One such time, sitting in my daddy's lap at his sister's house on a hot August evening as the sun went down. The porch light drawing the moths. The oscillating fan on the counter. Glasses of lemonade sweating on the kitchen table. The voices of the older ones talking, giving opinions and frequent laughter. To sit in my daddy's lap, feeling surrounded by loving family and belonging. I could go home, but 55 years later, only memories. No ghosts. And bare land or a multitude of sticks & bricks that holds no meaning for me. We can only warn the younger ones, hold fast to your mind & what the treasures it holds before it slips away like a mist.
I can resonate with this lonesome feeling. I lost my sister years ago, and this month is her birthday. She was my only sibling and I feel very alone in the world now.
I lost my sister in 2020 and I miss her every day. One of these days we are gonna sit on the porch in heaven with mama, granny, and, aunt Frankie and drink sweet tea and just laugh and enjoy each other. That day will come. God bless yall.
Tipper you helped to define the feeling i have been having since my mother passed away. I kept asking others if they ever felt homesick. Most just looked at me and had no idea what i meant. But you know and now I don't feel all by myself. You can have no idea how much this video means to me and how I return to it often to get comfort. May God bless
This is how I have been feeling off and on for the last couple of years. So many memories of the past flooding in all the way back to my childhood. Those days are gone forever but I will always have the memories
I love this says how I fill born raised in hills of wva way back my husband got sick had moved away he passed 2012 I got sick couldn't return to our mountian home but lord knows my mind heart does growing up living the most all my life I'm 63in may parksion and outher health keeps me away thank God for my kids taking care me butt I get so lonesome for home tku so much for your and ur girls programs I get visit home threw y'all love prayers
That was a very heartfelt offering. I’ll tell u lonesome for me is being 85, not well, a dear husband long gone & no way to really go home one more time to WVa .Thank u so much for putting some meaningful, beautiful words together for all ur people out here. Such a Blessing to know u & ur family- that music breaks my heart.
I must say that this channel is an oasis in an otherwise hectic world. The equal measure of calm and inspiration I get from watching and listening is simply wonderful. I'm seriously considering coming over to the mountains to ply my trade for a while - sharing some ancient tales from one of the many cultures that have gone into the blend that's made this mazing place what it is is fast becoming a prime goal of mine. One of my old teachers once said: Hir yw bob aros gyda m'ond hiraeth yn eich calon fel cwmni - Every wait is long with nought but hiraeth in your heart as company. Gwnai ddod mas i Appalachia i chwedleua rhyw ddydd. Fe fydd gwahoddiad i chi a'ch teulu heb os nag oni bai. I will come out to Appalachia to do some storytelling some day. There will certainly be an invitation for you and your family. Diolch - Thank you
I will turn 60 next week, and those old nostalgic memories flood my mind often as I get older and missing my grandparents, my mom, brother and other family members no longer with us, makes me ever so lonesome for the way our life once was. Loved the old family pictures Tipper, thanks for sharing.
My husband told me a long time ago that the more personal something is, the more universal it becomes. Meaning when you open yourself up to share the personal things, you'll find many people relate very closely to it. Many of these pictures felt just like the ones my family has collected over many decades. Beautiful video, thank you for sharing. 💛
Tipper. You have touched a place deep in my soul. I often have this exact feeling when thinking about my childhood, my grandparents. I was blessed with a sweet, safe and happy family. Thanks for the joy and tears of “lonesome” ❤️
Your videos remind me of my Grandma. She grew up in Kentucky. She has always been ashamed of her upbringing, and your channel helps me imagine the lovely things about it that she never shared. She is in a nursing home with dementia now. This was such a nice little fitting reflection. 💚
Go bust her out of that nursing home, for one last ride if you can, my grandma passed some time ago, I can remember the last time I busted her out of the hospital, she told me she thought she was gonna die in there but when she saw me she knew her strong grand son was gonna take her home, her smile that day I never will forget.
What a wonderful video! The word sums up my feelings, at 68, of early married years when my husband was just 21 years old, not the 74 he is today....a time when he could do any, and every, thing that needed doing......a time when my first born, who is now 51 years old, was scooting around in his walker and taking his first steps on Father's Day when he was only 7 months old....a time when my second born son, who would be 50 this year, was the lovingest youngun you ever set eyes on....never got tired of being held and loved on when he was a baby, and he always enjoyed hugs and sitting close as he grew up......a time when the whole family, all four of us, could gather round the table for a meal and talk and laugh....yes, that word seems just perfect because my lonesome times are mostly my sweetest times too.....thank you!
Watching this video made me lonesome for my mama and daddy. We were a large family and my widowed grannie lived with us. She and I shared a room. I had 3 older sisters but the one closest to my age was my heart. Even if we haven’t spoken for days, we still pick up to phone each other at the same time. We kinda are like twins, knowing what one is thinking even before she does! We are in our late sixties now with children and grand children of our own and some of them still join us at the beach in the summer. She and her family travel multiple times during the year, not me because I’m a homebody. When they leave my heart hurts terribly as if it is breaking. My childhood was blessed and so uncomplicated because of all the love. Killing and cleaning chickens for Sunday lunch, black eyed peas and cornbread with stewed potatoes for supper with everyone around the table, and 2 on each end. Slaughtering our pigs and putting up soup mixture and fresh corn. Your channel brings back my sweet lonesomeness. Thank you Tipper.!
This made me cry, I still am as I write this. Nothing could be more true to heart and to life. Amazingly expressed in word, song and pictures. My heart is left lonesome but joyful. ❤️❣️💔 Hiraeth
You made me cry!!! I get very very lonesome all the time!!! I miss my Mama, my Family, my Grandparents!!! I miss where I grew up!!! I will never see any of it again!!! Thank you so much for sharing this with me!!! God Bless You All!!!
Tipper, This segment couldn't be more fitting for the way I, too, feel. I miss so many moments I shared with my family. I am lonesome for the company of my loved ones, the conversations, the laughter, and the many great and fun times we shared. The song that is playing in the background and your soothing message you tell as those family pictures click by. Memories what a wonderful place to visit people and places of no more. Beautiful song makes tears fill my eyes as I listen to it multiple times. Thanks for sharing your family photos. Loved all those pictures. I am so glad I have come to know you and your family. I am glad for your friendship even though we have never meet I feel as I know you well. Your friend Debbie😊
Very true. I’m a lucky man as I can still walk over the land of my great great grandfather maternal line and my grandfather paternal line. It does my soul well to piddle around at the farm and remember all my kin that walked the same ground. It is as if they speak to me as I remember them. It warms my heart. A few years ago as we finished laying our maternal Aunt in a grave, my cousin, with tears in her eyes and quivering voice said, “that’s it.” I was in denial as I knew what she meant. Never again have my maternal kin all gathered as one. We are truly scattered as leaves in the wind.
This one touched my heart and made me cry. Just yesterday I was really longing for my mom. She, my dad, and my brother have been gone for years now. I know I’ll see them again in Heaven! Thankful to still have 3 sisters, my husband, daughters and grandchildren! Praising the Lord for His goodness! God bless you and your precious family! 😀❤️
It’s the funniest thing…I was sort of the family historian in my family…I can recognize people in pictures whom I’ve only heard of in stories. Now I’m doing it with your family too.I can always recognize your parents and brothers, and I can usually tell Corie from Katie when they were little. You and Corie are spittinimages of each other as youngsters. This video kind of made me sad tho, it made me think of the piles of people that were always around when I was a kid, but it’s just me and my oldest now. It was still a special video though! Love ya’all!
Without a doubt THIS IS one of THE VERY BEST VIDEOS I have ever seen. You have described feelings that overtake me on a regular basis....longing for family....home place..traditions..voices...food ways..sounds.. smells Although I had my mom and Dad for 72 + years, I miss "us" so much that sometimes it's hard to breathe 😢 As I listen to the whipoorwhil and the screech owl outside my bedroom window , I am filled with such beautiful but aching memories.....of a simpler, happier time...Grateful but so melancholy.....🥲💛💙 Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video...❤
This has made me feel lonesomely homesick. Even though I now own the property and house where I spent so much time as a child with family. What made it home, was the family. These things happen as you get older. Mom and Dad are gone, Aunts and Uncles are gone. Stay close to your siblings, embrace your niece's, nephew's and grandkids. And one day they will get lonesomely homesick. And the memory of you and yours, is what they will long for.
Oh Tipper...what a blessing this was. The baptizing in the river brought back many fond memories of family & loved ones. Loved all the pictures and music! God bless you always! Hugs from VA!
I can’t express enough how much I appreciate this video! I am so lonesome without my Mom who passed away 2022 on Mothers Day. I was dreading this years Mother’s Day and your video helped me to be more thankful for the beautiful memories I shared with her. Thank you for blessing me and Others with this beautiful Video! ❤️
My family is very close like yours, and my parents brought my siblings and I up with a similar set of values. Your videos have become part of my nightly wind-down ritual, they fill me with a sense of comfort and affinity. Since moving out of my childhood home to start on my next happy chapter with my partner, also named Matt, I sometimes get hit with this exact sense of lonesomeness that I've not been able to articulate. I just thought I'd let you know the deep reverence I feel for you and everything you share here with us, and thank you for putting into words that somewhat bewildering feeling I've been trying to decipher!
Thank you for making this and now I have a word to describe how I've been feeling. I spend a lot of time over the past few years ruminating in a quiet sadness over what's been lost and even the losses yet to come. Indeed, these thoughts are a strange comfort and also a reminder of how lucky I am to have experienced these people, places and events at all.
This really hit me. We went to Easter church service last weekend, in the little church, in the little holler where my grandparents lived. As we drove through the area after the service I could only think of all my childhood memories.
This video is such a gem. I could not help but think of my own childhood and all of the people and places that are no more. I truly miss them all. Thank you for all of the wonderful content that you bring us. God bless. 🙏
Man this hit home. Both of my parents have passed. Mom has been gone for 5 years and my father 2 and I miss them everyday. Some days are worse than others. As I'm sitting here writing this im crying a little because it's all so true. But I cherish my memories with them and others that have gone from my life. But now I'm making memories with my husband. Thank you so much for posting this video because you know exactly how it is and understand.
God bless you Nicole. Jesus loves you, Roman’s 10:9 profess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe God raised him fro the dead and you will be saved.
It’s good to have family to be lonesome for. Guess the ones that have lost their family go to a deeper feeling of lonesome. With hope maybe they can find friends that will love and give them companionship. Pray for them🙏
I think this is one of your best videos, Tipper! Such a great representation of Hiraeth and that lonesome feeling.....I can totally relate. Thank you for sharing!❣-Wendy
Oh Tipper, you have described my life -- now widowed & missing my mom & dad, several of my siblings and a cross country move. Perhaps that is just one of the reasons why I am comforted by your videos and family. Thank you
Earl HamnerJr..........You are as good as he was, during his narrations on The Waltons. You make my heart warm, put a smile on my face and content in my soul when you narrate this type of video. Please do more of this type.....I think it would be very popular and would help alot of people during these trying times....Good night Tipper, Good night Corie, Good night Katie, Good night Austin, Good night Matt, Good night Nick and Good night Olive. (Good night Mr. Hamner.)
Thank you for this video. This Easter, I missed my sister so much. My mind went to past Easters with our family. Everyone is gone from my childhood except a few distant cousins and one uncle. I remembered trading my sister for her black jelly beans which I loved and she didn’t. I remember Mama sewing our Easter dresses and wearing black patent leather shoes and white gloves. Precious memories do linger, and your video makes me realize how lucky I was to have all the relatives I had growing up. Thank you! Your music and photos touch my soul. Please know that we are also family on your channel, and you provide us a feeling of belonging to something beautiful and kind.
This post touched so many people. Wish we all could get together! I am 80, the 2nd of four children. All are gone except me. Sometimes you want to call your sisters but they are not there anymore. My husband passed 10 years ago. I didn’t realize how much work he did around here until I had to start doing it! Sometimes I make a bigger mess when I try to repair something. Finding a handyman is like finding hen's teeth!
My younger sister died in 1996 and yesterday, April 11th was the anniversary of her passing. Your tribute to "Lonesome" hit square with me but, not in a hurtful way. It just made me more aware of how far I've travelled with out her. If anything, time makes us toughen up so we aren't knocked down so low again. Many other family has left us over the years. Some have passed away and others have moved away. I completely relate to "Hiraeth."
Thank you, Tipper for this video. I love the word Hiraeth, and I will start using daily until it is firmly embedded in my vocabulary. I often get teary in church around Christmas, I am not sad but Hiraeth describes the feeling perfectly. Missing those wonderful Christmas mornings from childhood.
There’s nothing like family , being the baby of my family is good in some ways but if there’s a lot of year’s between the oldest and the baby you see all the love one go and that is bad . This video brought back lots of memories of my younger life and that’s life thank you for sharing your memories , I loved it
That was beautiful. It made me long for my past. The times when all the family and friends were together. It brings tears to my eyes thinking of how wonderful the days of my past are gone; except for the memories… Thank you for sharing your stories and your love for the Appalachia Mountains.
Reminds me of Hank William's song "I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry". My cousin and I would listen to that song when we were real young and tears would roll down our cheeks. We felt so sorry for poor ole' Hank back then. There are a lot of lonesome people in this world.
Thanks for this, Tipper, and I love the pictures. The first time I closed up my Dad's house after he died, there was no one waving "goodbye" on the porch as I left, no reason for me to tap the horn on the way down the drive, and I knew there would never again be anyone waiting to greet me, happy to see me, whenever I returned to that home. "Hiraeth" is all bound up in that place. Oh, and we should add "smell" to the list of things with the power to evoke memories and lonesomeness.
Beautiful. Some days I feel like I'm suffocating with lonesomeness. But then the Joy does show up for the times, places, people and experiences I am so thankful for.
Wow, you hit the nail on the head with this one! I think we all miss the people and times shared in yester year, all in varying degrees. Yet I thank God for memories, they cause us to look back with tender reflection, bring joy to our present life, and even give us hope for the future. Thank you for the new word "hiraeth" I've never heard before.
This video needs a warning label: Don't watch if you're prone to feeling lonesome. 😊 I'm beginning to recognize your family members from the pictures you've posted. I know the difference between Granny Gazzie & Mamaw Marie, and I spotted Mrs. Cindy in at least one of the pictures. Thank you, Tipper, for sharing your people with us.
That was one of the greatest videos! I think my eye sprung a leak... My great granny Hughes had the maiden name Beavers, maybe that is our kinship link. The memories I long for include sitting on a swing in the summer afternoons of my single digit years, listening to J-Roy strumming his banjo in his own style until the tree frogs and crickets drowned him out. Spending those few summers on Martin's Creek are my Hiraeth, longing for it but joyful that I had that. Thank you Pressley Family!💞
This was a wonderful video. Your photos remind me of my mom's family in the Blue Ridge, Ashe County, NC. Whenever I leave home for a vacation or if my family is gone from our neighborhood for a few days I have a weird feeling that I always called homesickness, even if I was at home. Maybe it's lonesomeness, not homesickness. The music and photos here are just so homelike. God bless you and your family. 😍🙏
oh dear tipper that had me crying like a baby. i lost my partner in 2021 i miss her so much. if i smell her perfume im back ther with her. when the suns setting in the evening is some times bad.the smell of pine trees makes me feel lonely or a beautiful moonlight night. but i know my lord is with me watching over me. so that makes me feel good love n hugs sandra
Thank you Tipper for this video. I felt like your words touched a place deep inside me. I've lost precious people that can never be replaced and they seem to walk with me sometimes. Seems like more often as I get older. The way you described hiraeth explains the loneliness I feel exactly. Would that I could spend just one more day with my loved ones who are gone but I know it wouldn't be enough. Maybe each one of them took a piece of my heart with them. Bless all of you.
We pronounce hiraeth as hee-r-eye-th You video encapsulated hiraeth really well. It's hard to fully explain it just as English words, because it's so imbued with feeling, emotion, and our culture ❤🏴
Tipper- this sharing took me down many backroads of memories of not just loved ones now gone, but also times that are long gone such as my own childhood, and when my own children were small, and also for my beloved husband who died right as the COVID pandemic arrived and that pandemic left me & my family totally isolated from one another for the next two years since we all lived far apart. But at same time, we are all blessed to have such special people who were a part of our lives that we are lonesome for now! 🙂❤🙏
My parents and grandparents died many years ago and I was heartbroken but I didn't understand lonesome until the death of my husband 💔 who I was blessed to have spent 41 years with ❤
My granddad died two days before my birthday, we buried him on it, my dad found out he was dying of cancer on Christmas 2017 and died a week after the 4th of July basically, I miss my grandmothers cooking and her words of wisdom, she been gone for some time to, got a uncle who committed suicide and aunt killed by a drunk driver, when you get my age holidays and birthdays is a gathering of the survivors of this game of life talking about the ones we lost over the years, God bless everyone
Tipper this was absolutely beautiful! I have been missing my Mama horribly this week after Easter. I know the exact feeling you are describing. Sad but happy at the same time. 😢. As always, thank you for the wonderful video.
That was such a tribute. As I was watching and listening to this video, it sure did conjure up sweet memories of my family. Several Sundays ago at church we had a member of our church bring in a quilt that was sewn in 1953. It had been a fund raiser for the youth group at that time. The lady that made the quilt embroidered the people’s names in the squares that contributed. I found a lot of my family’s names that were long gone. I took my hand across their names. It was like they were there with us. 😇🙏♥️😊
This says what so many people experience especially as we get older. My 70 year old self is so grateful and blessed that my neice inherited our old homeplace and has kept it basically the same. We can visit and reduce our wonderful childhood any time we choose!
Thank you so very much for sharing such a precious video. It struck a chord in me, especially when it mentioned losing a place in addition to loved ones. My mother's family settled in central Pennsylvania in the 1700's. One ancestor built a house in the 1840s, which was passed down through the generations, finally to my grandmother and then to my cousin. Sadly, my cousin had to sell the family home several years ago. I have many happy memories of the home, from yearly family Thanksgivings with my great-grandparents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, & tons of cousins to Fourth of July family gatherings complete with homemade ice cream. It was the heart of our family and we thought it would be always there for us, as it was for the generations who were before us. The family home may be gone, but the memories and pictures will always be there!
Loved all the pictures and your understanding of the particular kind of lonesome brought a happy/sad tear... thank you Tipper for your heartfelt words 🤗❤️
How beautiful this is, just the tone of your voice in this and even glancing at your family over time really got me feeling lonesome remembering by gone times and family. 💛💛
Beautiful pictures, Tipper. Every person is unique and irreplaceable. When they're gone, we still have memories and keepsakes, but we don't have them. We have loneliness...and hope...and faith. ❤🙏
Thank you Tipper for this beautiful video. It really touched a lot of hearts including mine. You have quite a special ministry with your channel and it’s very much appreciated! 😊❤
Such sweet photos. I tell people who are sad (or as you say lonesome) because they miss people or past times. - you are sad because you were loved. Now, this might seem obvious but some are not so lucky to feel this. They were not loved or wanted. If you are sad it is because you were loved. Never ever forget this blessing.
I love this so much. I know this lonesomeness. Of days gone by, those that are no longer with us. I agree, hearing a hoot owl at night is so very lonesome. I remember sitting on the porch, as a child with my Mama at night, listening to the Whippoorwill hollerin’. That was such a lonesome sound to me too. Thank you so very much for sharing this. ♥️
What a lovely, beautifully composed message and visual accompaniment. Thanks very much, Tipper. I have a new, enhanced appreciation for your writing, for Appalachia and for my memories of those who have gone ahead of me to live on with Jesus.
You're channel is always a blessing to our family. We no longer live in the country side our parents left. I especially notice my dad missing his small town in southern Missouri. He is now the oldest as his elders have passed on. He tells wonderful stories about his childhood. Yes, we get lonesome for those that came before us. Yes, we get lonesome for home. Dad's small community is no longer a township. It has been absorbed by the bigger town. God bless y'all and thank you.
Tipper you have a gift of expressing your feeling that few people have. Thanks for this video. I feel lonely thinking about family and friends who have gone home. I also feel lonely because the old home place is no longer in the family. Other members of the family did not feel as close to it as I did. I have downloaded this video so I can watch it any time I want to.
Once again, i appreciated this one video, i liked the way you tried to explain that word and simplify its meaning, especially to us non-native english speakers but one of your loyal followers all the way from Morocco, North Africa ...i like everything about this video : the music, the photos, the narrative way , EVERYTHING ! thank you and greetings from me to the people of Appalachia, God bless you all !
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Thanks so much for this video/subject. I’m 60 and my husband passed away 8 years ago. I’ve three grown children. I was worried that the loneliness I feel was because I lost my husband of 27 years. But this made me realize I just miss a lot of things. Especially my late in-laws that lived until their mid 90s. I miss their wisdom and homey home, the cooking smells and their interactions with my children when they were young. How much the world has changed and I miss the old world I lived in. 🙏🏻
Bless you!
Fae I lost my love at age 32 while pregnant .Today I found out our child got into college and made honour roll and I wish he was here with me to rejoice over this.I’ve been remarried and divorced now…and the loneliness lingers but I know I’ll see him again soon enough. Hopefully our children bridge the gap for us ❤❤
I am in my mid 60s and I miss so much too. I think sadly its because so much of my life is behind me now. A lot of joy. Some regrets. Then I think how blessed I am to have those wonderful memories. But I try to remember that God is not through with me yet. If we were done then we would not be here. There are still things we are meant to do. Kind words we are meant to say, encouragement we are meant to give. My Dad asked once why he was still here and Mom was gone. I told him it was because she finished all her chores and he still had some left to do. I believe that. So it's up to us to figure out what we are supposed to do each day and get it done. Find ways to intersect the lives of others. You still have memories to make. God bless all of us who were fortunate to live in simpler days past.
Yes I agree! My children definitely bring me joy and I have one grandson! I thank God daily for my blessings including still cancer free after 4 years. Thanks for your encouragement and sharing🙏🏻🙂
Amen! I miss my old world as well. Things aren't anything like they used to be no matter what we do. (((Hugs)))
I have always known it as “homesick for a place you’ve never been before” and equated it with lonesome for returning to God.
I am the only one left of my family. I get so lonesome to see my grandparents. Sometimes I could cry. But I read once…. Don’t cry because something is over smile because you got to be a part of it.
My mom had an uncle who called it being "the last leaf on the tree." My mom has been the last leaf on the tree for many years now. She does indeed get lonesome.
Love that Rhonda! Thank you for sharing it-I will remember it 😀
I feel this for my mother, she is the last one alive of all the elders in our family. We were just talking about this the other day. She will be 89 this July. This video was very touching.
I wish there was a “love” button for youtube. I certainly would be pressing it now. This is one of the best videos you’ve done. I love the pictures, and of course the music. Your dad’s harmony is spot on, just perfect every time. I, like you, miss all the “things of ordinary days” like family get-togethers, playing in the creek and woods, etc.
Wow, thank you!
Just over ten years ago, I named my historic restoration business Hiraeth Restorations. Eventually, I was able to purchase what was my family’s farm from 1724 to 1942(the old house and barn for now). Eighty years after we lost it, I’m back on my native soil in my ancestral home and I don’t feel lonesome anymore.
Glad you are home!!
What a beautiful, heartfelt collage.
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
So this is what you call that feeling. Tipper you’re whole family warms my heart!
Those moments of nostalgia hit me at odd times. Leaves a longing of hunger for what was and can never be again. Wonderful nanoseconds in time that I am unable to share with the nearest & dearest to me.
One such time, sitting in my daddy's lap at his sister's house on a hot August evening as the sun went down. The porch light drawing the moths. The oscillating fan on the counter. Glasses of lemonade sweating on the kitchen table. The voices of the older ones talking, giving opinions and frequent laughter.
To sit in my daddy's lap, feeling surrounded by loving family and belonging. I could go home, but 55 years later, only memories. No ghosts. And bare land or a multitude of sticks & bricks that holds no meaning for me.
We can only warn the younger ones, hold fast to your mind & what the treasures it holds before it slips away like a mist.
Love your memories Kate!
You paint a wonderful image in your memory. God bless you.
I can resonate with this lonesome feeling. I lost my sister years ago, and this month is her birthday. She was my only sibling and I feel very alone in the world now.
Bless you! I can't imagine how much you miss her.
I’m so sorry for your loss. Can’t imagine life without my sis 💔
I lost my sister in 2020 and I miss her every day. One of these days we are gonna sit on the porch in heaven with mama, granny, and, aunt Frankie and drink sweet tea and just laugh and enjoy each other. That day will come. God bless yall.
God comfort you in Jesus name
Tipper you helped to define the feeling i have been having since my mother passed away. I kept asking others if they ever felt homesick. Most just looked at me and had no idea what i meant. But you know and now I don't feel all by myself. You can have no idea how much this video means to me and how I return to it often to get comfort. May God bless
What a beautiful assortment of photos and memories. This made me cry thinking of loved ones passed! Thank you
This is how I have been feeling off and on for the last couple of years. So many memories of the past flooding in all the way back to my childhood. Those days are gone forever but I will always have the memories
I'm glad you have those wonderful memories 😀
I love this says how I fill born raised in hills of wva way back my husband got sick had moved away he passed 2012 I got sick couldn't return to our mountian home but lord knows my mind heart does growing up living the most all my life I'm 63in may parksion and outher health keeps me away thank God for my kids taking care me butt I get so lonesome for home tku so much for your and ur girls programs I get visit home threw y'all love prayers
That was a very heartfelt offering. I’ll tell u lonesome for me is being 85, not well, a dear husband long gone & no way to really go home one more time to WVa .Thank u so much for putting some meaningful, beautiful words together for all ur people out here. Such a Blessing to know u & ur family- that music breaks my heart.
Bless you Rose!!
I must say that this channel is an oasis in an otherwise hectic world. The equal measure of calm and inspiration I get from watching and listening is simply wonderful. I'm seriously considering coming over to the mountains to ply my trade for a while - sharing some ancient tales from one of the many cultures that have gone into the blend that's made this mazing place what it is is fast becoming a prime goal of mine.
One of my old teachers once said: Hir yw bob aros gyda m'ond hiraeth yn eich calon fel cwmni - Every wait is long with nought but hiraeth in your heart as company.
Gwnai ddod mas i Appalachia i chwedleua rhyw ddydd. Fe fydd gwahoddiad i chi a'ch teulu heb os nag oni bai.
I will come out to Appalachia to do some storytelling some day. There will certainly be an invitation for you and your family.
Diolch - Thank you
Thank you for the kind words!! Love the saying from your teacher.
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"Every wait is long with nought but hiraeth in your heart as company"
That's a good one!
I will turn 60 next week, and those old nostalgic memories flood my mind often as I get older and missing my grandparents, my mom, brother and other family members no longer with us, makes me ever so lonesome for the way our life once was. Loved the old family pictures Tipper, thanks for sharing.
My husband told me a long time ago that the more personal something is, the more universal it becomes. Meaning when you open yourself up to share the personal things, you'll find many people relate very closely to it. Many of these pictures felt just like the ones my family has collected over many decades. Beautiful video, thank you for sharing. 💛
Tipper. You have touched a place deep in my soul. I often have this exact feeling when thinking about my childhood, my grandparents. I was blessed with a sweet, safe and happy family. Thanks for the joy and tears of “lonesome” ❤️
Bless you Kim!!
You outdid yourself with this one. The tears are rolling. All my love to you and the families.
Thank you so much 😀
Your videos remind me of my Grandma. She grew up in Kentucky. She has always been ashamed of her upbringing, and your channel helps me imagine the lovely things about it that she never shared. She is in a nursing home with dementia now. This was such a nice little fitting reflection. 💚
Go bust her out of that nursing home, for one last ride if you can, my grandma passed some time ago, I can remember the last time I busted her out of the hospital, she told me she thought she was gonna die in there but when she saw me she knew her strong grand son was gonna take her home, her smile that day I never will forget.
What a wonderful video! The word sums up my feelings, at 68, of early married years when my husband was just 21 years old, not the 74 he is today....a time when he could do any, and every, thing that needed doing......a time when my first born, who is now 51 years old, was scooting around in his walker and taking his first steps on Father's Day when he was only 7 months old....a time when my second born son, who would be 50 this year, was the lovingest youngun you ever set eyes on....never got tired of being held and loved on when he was a baby, and he always enjoyed hugs and sitting close as he grew up......a time when the whole family, all four of us, could gather round the table for a meal and talk and laugh....yes, that word seems just perfect because my lonesome times are mostly my sweetest times too.....thank you!
Watching this video made me lonesome for my mama and daddy. We were a large family and my widowed grannie lived with us. She and I shared a room. I had 3 older sisters but the one closest to my age was my heart. Even if we haven’t spoken for days, we still pick up to phone each other at the same time. We kinda are like twins, knowing what one is thinking even before she does! We are in our late sixties now with children and grand children of our own and some of them still join us at the beach in the summer. She and her family travel multiple times during the year, not me because I’m a homebody. When they leave my heart hurts terribly as if it is breaking. My childhood was blessed and so uncomplicated because of all the love. Killing and cleaning chickens for Sunday lunch, black eyed peas and cornbread with stewed potatoes for supper with everyone around the table, and 2 on each end. Slaughtering our pigs and putting up soup mixture and fresh corn. Your channel brings back my sweet lonesomeness. Thank you Tipper.!
Love those memories you have!!
Tipper, that was absolutely beautiful! Makes me yearn for days gone by but also look forward to seeing my loved ones again in heaven!
This made me cry, I still am as I write this. Nothing could be more true to heart and to life. Amazingly expressed in word, song and pictures. My heart is left lonesome but joyful. ❤️❣️💔 Hiraeth
Bless you Sondra! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Enjoyed this video tremendously ❤. This video really tugs on the heart 😢 for grand parents, parents, aunts and uncles also cousins.Mike and Judy.
You made me cry!!! I get very very lonesome all the time!!! I miss my Mama, my Family, my Grandparents!!! I miss where I grew up!!! I will never see any of it again!!! Thank you so much for sharing this with me!!! God Bless You All!!!
I know this feeling well. This is one of the most beautiful meaningful videos you've created. Your friends and family are truly blessed to have you.
Thank you so much!
Tipper,
This segment couldn't be more fitting for the way I, too, feel. I miss so many moments I shared with my family. I am lonesome for the company of my loved ones, the conversations, the laughter, and the many great and fun times we shared.
The song that is playing in the background and your soothing message you tell as those family pictures click by.
Memories what a wonderful place to visit people and places of no more.
Beautiful song makes tears fill my eyes as I listen to it multiple times.
Thanks for sharing your family photos. Loved all those pictures. I am so glad I have come to know you and your family. I am glad for your friendship even though we have never meet I feel as I know you well.
Your friend
Debbie😊
Very true. I’m a lucky man as I can still walk over the land of my great great grandfather maternal line and my grandfather paternal line. It does my soul well to piddle around at the farm and remember all my kin that walked the same ground. It is as if they speak to me as I remember them. It warms my heart.
A few years ago as we finished laying our maternal Aunt in a grave, my cousin, with tears in her eyes and quivering voice said, “that’s it.” I was in denial as I knew what she meant. Never again have my maternal kin all gathered as one. We are truly scattered as leaves in the wind.
Such a poignant and beautiful post. I have no words except to tell you how much your channel means to me. Thanks Tipper❤️
Having a Welsh grandmother, this hit my heart. Lonesome for the past. Isn't that all of us?
This one touched my heart and made me cry. Just yesterday I was really longing for my mom. She, my dad, and my brother have been gone for years now. I know I’ll see them again in Heaven! Thankful to still have 3 sisters, my husband, daughters and grandchildren! Praising the Lord for His goodness! God bless you and your precious family! 😀❤️
PERFECT TIPPER!
THANK YOU FOR TELLING THE STORY OF HOW A BUNCH OF US FEEL!
This was a haunting but very sweet story. I love all of your videos but this is one of your best. The singing is wonderful.
Thank you Rhonda!!
It’s the funniest thing…I was sort of the family historian in my family…I can recognize people in pictures whom I’ve only heard of in stories. Now I’m doing it with your family too.I can always recognize your parents and brothers, and I can usually tell Corie from Katie when they were little. You and Corie are spittinimages of each other as youngsters. This video kind of made me sad tho, it made me think of the piles of people that were always around when I was a kid, but it’s just me and my oldest now. It was still a special video though! Love ya’all!
Without a doubt THIS IS one of THE VERY BEST VIDEOS I have ever seen. You have described feelings that overtake me on a regular basis....longing for family....home place..traditions..voices...food ways..sounds..
smells
Although I had my mom and Dad for 72 + years, I miss "us" so much that sometimes it's hard to breathe 😢
As I listen to the whipoorwhil and the screech owl outside my bedroom window , I am filled with such beautiful but aching memories.....of a simpler, happier time...Grateful but so melancholy.....🥲💛💙
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video...❤
So glad you liked it!!
Oh how beautiful!! So well done .....warmed my heart and soul...thank you!
True words for sure. At a age of 76, there a lot of memories, some sad, and some as you say bring a smile. Bless you and your family Tipper.
Thank you William!
This is a beautiful tribute to your loving family. The smell of snuff, country hams and Dewy's Bakery will be in my soul until I am no more.
This has made me feel lonesomely homesick. Even though I now own the property and house where I spent so much time as a child with family. What made it home, was the family. These things happen as you get older. Mom and Dad are gone, Aunts and Uncles are gone. Stay close to your siblings, embrace your niece's, nephew's and grandkids. And one day they will get lonesomely homesick. And the memory of you and yours, is what they will long for.
Well said! We should all strive to do just that!! Thank you for watching!
Oh Tipper...what a blessing this was. The baptizing in the river brought back many fond memories of family & loved ones. Loved all the pictures and music! God bless you always! Hugs from VA!
I can’t express enough how much I appreciate this video!
I am so lonesome without my Mom who passed away 2022 on
Mothers Day. I was dreading this years Mother’s Day and your video helped me to be more thankful for the beautiful memories I shared with her.
Thank you for blessing me and
Others with this beautiful Video! ❤️
Bless you Janet! I know you miss her so.
My family is very close like yours, and my parents brought my siblings and I up with a similar set of values. Your videos have become part of my nightly wind-down ritual, they fill me with a sense of comfort and affinity. Since moving out of my childhood home to start on my next happy chapter with my partner, also named Matt, I sometimes get hit with this exact sense of lonesomeness that I've not been able to articulate. I just thought I'd let you know the deep reverence I feel for you and everything you share here with us, and thank you for putting into words that somewhat bewildering feeling I've been trying to decipher!
Bless you Emmy! So glad you enjoyed it 😀
Thank you for making this and now I have a word to describe how I've been feeling. I spend a lot of time over the past few years ruminating in a quiet sadness over what's been lost and even the losses yet to come. Indeed, these thoughts are a strange comfort and also a reminder of how lucky I am to have experienced these people, places and events at all.
This really hit me. We went to Easter church service last weekend, in the little church, in the little holler where my grandparents lived. As we drove through the area after the service I could only think of all my childhood memories.
You couldn’t have expressed it better! Hiraeth such a beautiful word for such a melancholy emotion. God bless all the lonely souls! Thank you Tipper.
Thank you so much!
This video is such a gem. I could not help but think of my own childhood and all of the people and places that are no more. I truly miss them all. Thank you for all of the wonderful content that you bring us. God bless. 🙏
Hearing this made tears come to my eyes for some reason.
Bless you Wanda!
Man this hit home. Both of my parents have passed. Mom has been gone for 5 years and my father 2 and I miss them everyday. Some days are worse than others. As I'm sitting here writing this im crying a little because it's all so true. But I cherish my memories with them and others that have gone from my life. But now I'm making memories with my husband. Thank you so much for posting this video because you know exactly how it is and understand.
God bless you Nicole. Jesus loves you, Roman’s 10:9 profess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe God raised him fro the dead and you will be saved.
That was beautifully written and spoken. It touched me. Thank you!
It’s good to have family to be lonesome for. Guess the ones that have lost their family go to a deeper feeling of lonesome. With hope maybe they can find friends that will love and give them companionship. Pray for them🙏
I sure do pray for all those who are downtrodden and sad.
Another gem, Tipper! Right up there with "I am from Canning Jars". Thank you for spreading your light in this world.
Bless you Stacey! And thank you for the kind words 😀
I think this is one of your best videos, Tipper! Such a great representation of Hiraeth and that lonesome feeling.....I can totally relate. Thank you for sharing!❣-Wendy
Oh Tipper, you have described my life -- now widowed & missing my mom & dad, several of my siblings and a cross country move. Perhaps that is just one of the reasons why I am comforted by your videos and family. Thank you
Bless you Cheryl!!
Earl HamnerJr..........You are as good as he was, during his narrations on The Waltons. You make my heart warm, put a smile on my face and content in my soul when you narrate this type of video. Please do more of this type.....I think it would be very popular and would help alot of people during these trying times....Good night Tipper, Good night Corie, Good night Katie, Good night Austin, Good night Matt, Good night Nick and Good night Olive. (Good night Mr. Hamner.)
I agree.....good night, Carson1954.
My goodness-you are so kind! Thank you!! So glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you for this video. This Easter, I missed my sister so much. My mind went to past Easters with our family. Everyone is gone from my childhood except a few distant cousins and one uncle. I remembered trading my sister for her black jelly beans which I loved and she didn’t. I remember Mama sewing our Easter dresses and wearing black patent leather shoes and white gloves.
Precious memories do linger, and your video makes me realize how lucky I was to have all the relatives I had growing up.
Thank you! Your music and photos touch my soul. Please know that we are also family on your channel, and you provide us a feeling of belonging to something beautiful and kind.
Thank you Cynthia!! I know you miss her so terribly.
This post touched so many people. Wish we all could get together! I am 80, the 2nd of four children. All are gone except me. Sometimes you want to call your sisters but they are not there anymore. My husband passed 10 years ago. I didn’t realize how much work he did around here until I had to start doing it! Sometimes I make a bigger mess when I try to repair something. Finding a handyman is like finding hen's teeth!
My younger sister died in 1996 and yesterday, April 11th was the anniversary of her passing. Your tribute to "Lonesome" hit square with me but, not in a hurtful way. It just made me more aware of how far I've travelled with out her. If anything, time makes us toughen up so we aren't knocked down so low again. Many other family has left us over the years. Some have passed away and others have moved away. I completely relate to "Hiraeth."
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I'm sorry you lost her. That was the year my girls were born.
@@CelebratingAppalachia You always make me appreciate where I live, here on the Tennessee side of the hills! Thanks for the good message.
Thank you, Tipper for this video. I love the word Hiraeth, and I will start using daily until it is firmly embedded in my vocabulary. I often get teary in church around Christmas, I am not sad but Hiraeth describes the feeling perfectly. Missing those wonderful Christmas mornings from childhood.
Thank you,Tipper, for the wonderful video. Your words touched my heart. I’m so happy to have found your channel as well as your daughters channel. ❤
There’s nothing like family , being the baby of my family is good in some ways but if there’s a lot of year’s between the oldest and the baby you see all the love one go and that is bad . This video brought back lots of memories of my younger life and that’s life thank you for sharing your memories , I loved it
I’m glad to now have a word for what I experience so much more as I get older. Thank you for making this, Tipper.
That was beautiful. It made me long for my past. The times when all the family and friends were together. It brings tears to my eyes thinking of how wonderful the days of my past are gone; except for the memories… Thank you for sharing your stories and your love for the Appalachia Mountains.
Reminds me of Hank William's song "I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry". My cousin and I would listen to that song when we were real young and tears would roll down our cheeks. We felt so sorry for poor ole' Hank back then. There are a lot of lonesome people in this world.
Love that song too Tammy 😀
Thanks for this, Tipper, and I love the pictures. The first time I closed up my Dad's house after he died, there was no one waving "goodbye" on the porch as I left, no reason for me to tap the horn on the way down the drive, and I knew there would never again be anyone waiting to greet me, happy to see me, whenever I returned to that home. "Hiraeth" is all bound up in that place. Oh, and we should add "smell" to the list of things with the power to evoke memories and lonesomeness.
Such a poignant thought about your father's porch. Thank you!
Beautiful. Some days I feel like I'm suffocating with lonesomeness. But then the Joy does show up for the times, places, people and experiences I am so thankful for.
Bless you Sue!!
Wow, you hit the nail on the head with this one! I think we all miss the people and times shared in yester year, all in varying degrees. Yet I thank God for memories, they cause us to look back with tender reflection, bring joy to our present life, and even give us hope for the future. Thank you for the new word "hiraeth" I've never heard before.
I feel like this is my favorite video you have ever posted Thank you Tipper ❤
Wow-thank you 😀
This video needs a warning label: Don't watch if you're prone to feeling lonesome. 😊
I'm beginning to recognize your family members from the pictures you've posted. I know the difference between Granny Gazzie & Mamaw Marie, and I spotted Mrs. Cindy in at least one of the pictures. Thank you, Tipper, for sharing your people with us.
Thank you David!
That was one of the greatest videos! I think my eye sprung a leak... My great granny Hughes had the maiden name Beavers, maybe that is our kinship link. The memories I long for include sitting on a swing in the summer afternoons of my single digit years, listening to J-Roy strumming his banjo in his own style until the tree frogs and crickets drowned him out. Spending those few summers on Martin's Creek are my Hiraeth, longing for it but joyful that I had that. Thank you Pressley Family!💞
How did you read that without tearing up? I did.❤
Lovely bittersweet video. Well-done, Tipper.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
This was a wonderful video. Your photos remind me of my mom's family in the Blue Ridge, Ashe County, NC. Whenever I leave home for a vacation or if my family is gone from our neighborhood for a few days I have a weird feeling that I always called homesickness, even if I was at home. Maybe it's lonesomeness, not homesickness. The music and photos here are just so homelike. God bless you and your family. 😍🙏
Thank you Tipper! Your channel is a balm in this crazy world!♥️
I love hearing Paul and Pap sing.
I miss living in Kentucky so much. There are days I just want to walk away from everything and move back.
Your food fills stomachs and your words fill hearts. Well done.
How kind-thank you!
oh dear tipper that had me crying like a baby. i lost my partner in 2021 i miss her so much. if i smell her perfume im back ther with her. when the suns setting in the evening is some times bad.the smell of pine trees makes me feel lonely or a beautiful moonlight night. but i know my lord is with me watching over me. so that makes me feel good love n hugs sandra
Thank you Tipper for this video. I felt like your words touched a place deep inside me. I've lost precious people that can never be replaced and they seem to walk with me sometimes. Seems like more often as I get older. The way you described hiraeth explains the loneliness I feel exactly. Would that I could spend just one more day with my loved ones who are gone but I know it wouldn't be enough. Maybe each one of them took a piece of my heart with them. Bless all of you.
We pronounce hiraeth as hee-r-eye-th
You video encapsulated hiraeth really well. It's hard to fully explain it just as English words, because it's so imbued with feeling, emotion, and our culture ❤🏴
Thank you so much 😀
You, ma’am, are a lovely writer. I felt very nostalgic listening to you today.
We may not know the word very well....but most of us understand the meaning all too well....God bless you!
Tipper- this sharing took me down many backroads of memories of not just loved ones now gone, but also times that are long gone such as my own childhood, and when my own children were small, and also for my beloved husband who died right as the COVID pandemic arrived and that pandemic left me & my family totally isolated from one another for the next two years since we all lived far apart. But at same time, we are all blessed to have such special people who were a part of our lives that we are lonesome for now! 🙂❤🙏
My parents and grandparents died many years ago and I was heartbroken but I didn't understand lonesome until the death of my husband 💔 who I was blessed to have spent 41 years with ❤
Bless you Julia! I can't imagine how you must miss him.
My granddad died two days before my birthday, we buried him on it, my dad found out he was dying of cancer on Christmas 2017 and died a week after the 4th of July basically, I miss my grandmothers cooking and her words of wisdom, she been gone for some time to, got a uncle who committed suicide and aunt killed by a drunk driver, when you get my age holidays and birthdays is a gathering of the survivors of this game of life talking about the ones we lost over the years, God bless everyone
@@sydneemiller6091 Bless you! I'm so sorry for your losses.
Tipper this was absolutely beautiful! I have been missing my Mama horribly this week after Easter. I know the exact feeling you are describing. Sad but happy at the same time. 😢. As always, thank you for the wonderful video.
This really brought back lots of memories, Thank you so much for putting this video together! Bless you and your family!
That was such a tribute. As I was watching and listening to this video, it sure did conjure up sweet memories of my family. Several Sundays ago at church we had a member of our church bring in a quilt that was sewn in 1953. It had been a fund raiser for the youth group at that time. The lady that made the quilt embroidered the people’s names in the squares that contributed. I found a lot of my family’s names that were long gone. I took my hand across their names. It was like they were there with us. 😇🙏♥️😊
What a treasure! So glad you got to see the quilt 😀
Bouy! Tipper, You got that right! I just lost my Auntie - who was the only sister on my Mom’s side! Thanks for this! I just cried! ❤️& Prayers
RICHIE ALSO I MISS HIM SO MUCH He found me when I was going almost dead !!! He helped me His last yr on earth !!!
This says what so many people experience especially as we get older. My 70 year old self is so grateful and blessed that my neice inherited our old homeplace and has kept it basically the same. We can visit and reduce our wonderful childhood any time we choose!
Thank you so very much for sharing such a precious video. It struck a chord in me, especially when it mentioned losing a place in addition to loved ones. My mother's family settled in central Pennsylvania in the 1700's. One ancestor built a house in the 1840s, which was passed down through the generations, finally to my grandmother and then to my cousin. Sadly, my cousin had to sell the family home several years ago. I have many happy memories of the home, from yearly family Thanksgivings with my great-grandparents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, & tons of cousins to Fourth of July family gatherings complete with homemade ice cream. It was the heart of our family and we thought it would be always there for us, as it was for the generations who were before us. The family home may be gone, but the memories and pictures will always be there!
Oh Tipper, you made me cry today. I sure miss my Mamaws and Papaws and cousins in Appalachia. What great summers I had in Letcher County KY ❤️
Love those memories you have 😀
Loved all the pictures and your understanding of the particular kind of lonesome brought a happy/sad tear... thank you Tipper for your heartfelt words 🤗❤️
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
How beautiful this is, just the tone of your voice in this and even glancing at your family over time really got me feeling lonesome remembering by gone times and family. 💛💛
Beautiful pictures, Tipper. Every person is unique and irreplaceable. When they're gone, we still have memories and keepsakes, but we don't have them. We have loneliness...and hope...and faith. ❤🙏
Thank you Tipper for this beautiful video. It really touched a lot of hearts including mine. You have quite a special ministry with your channel and it’s very much appreciated! 😊❤
Such sweet photos. I tell people who are sad (or as you say lonesome) because they miss people or past times. - you are sad because you were loved. Now, this might seem obvious but some are not so lucky to feel this. They were not loved or wanted. If you are sad it is because you were loved. Never ever forget this blessing.
So true Melissa! Thank you 😀
I love this so much. I know this lonesomeness. Of days gone by, those that are no longer with us. I agree, hearing a hoot owl at night is so very lonesome. I remember sitting on the porch, as a child with my Mama at night, listening to the Whippoorwill hollerin’. That was such a lonesome sound to me too. Thank you so very much for sharing this. ♥️
What a lovely, beautifully composed message and visual accompaniment. Thanks very much, Tipper. I have a new, enhanced appreciation for your writing, for Appalachia and for my memories of those who have gone ahead of me to live on with Jesus.
You're channel is always a blessing to our family. We no longer live in the country side our parents left. I especially notice my dad missing his small town in southern Missouri. He is now the oldest as his elders have passed on. He tells wonderful stories about his childhood. Yes, we get lonesome for those that came before us. Yes, we get lonesome for home. Dad's small community is no longer a township. It has been absorbed by the bigger town. God bless y'all and thank you.
Thank you Tyler!
Tipper you have a gift of expressing your feeling that few people have. Thanks for this video. I feel lonely thinking about family and friends who have gone home. I also feel lonely because the old home place is no longer in the family. Other members of the family did not feel as close to it as I did. I have downloaded this video so I can watch it any time I want to.
Bless you Dennis! We appreciate you!!
Once again, i appreciated this one video, i liked the way you tried to explain that word and simplify its meaning, especially to us non-native english speakers but one of your loyal followers all the way from Morocco, North Africa ...i like everything about this video : the music, the photos, the narrative way , EVERYTHING ! thank you and greetings from me to the people of Appalachia, God bless you all !
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
Absolutely loved this. Being lonely takes a bad rap. Lonely is good for us. You touched a string in me. Missing my mountain home.
Glad you enjoyed it!!
This was so beautifully made, with the photos synching up perfectly to your lovely words. Reminds me of a long thoughtful love letter. 💓
Thank you!