If you were still here.I would remind you of the hot, heavy and humid June day when you were finally born-fighting the forceps that yanked you, almost against your will from the womb.You loved these sweltering days-you were born to thrive above 90 degrees, I believe. You were a heat up the […]
Tag: family
Until we meet again…
Sunday in Church , I prayed for an end to my sister’s suffering. The cancer and the treatments had ravaged her body. She was afraid to die and very sad. I could feel the passing would be soon. I was already very sad as it was it was the anniversary of my oldest son’s death. […]
Heavenly
The scent of this morning’s Fresh plucked Magnolia blossom Fills the room tonight. One of my favorites… One I cannot explain to my own satisfaction, Much less to another. Tonight, I am reminded of the first time I smelled Magnolia and how the adrenaline swelled through my body while Angels infused the air. Spring. Charleston. […]
Behind blue eyes
Today we celebrate our son, Mike on the occasion of his 46th birthday.He was not with us for so many birthdays Lost in a world where mom's andDads don't go except in the nightmares Of their minds when sleep curls up in a cold corner of the dark roomAnd they can only stare silently at […]
“Just another brick in the wall”
Each one called the other,BrotherNow won't speak one to anotherFar beyond, an angel's tears for brothers both held so dear Mother's counsel goes unheedingStubbornness from both, stampeding She turns off her light while grieving
Plumeria Blooming
I received my first stock from the woman my father married, a few years after our Mother died. They were both eighty and set in their ways-she was a hard-headed woman of German descent. She snapped off a piece of hers without fanfare, jammed it in a discarded pot of dirt and said, “here you go.Just […]
We are family~~~~
January 6, 2013 It has not quite been a week since I returned to my blog…planning to continue writing here weekly for all of 2013. It has so far not proved to be too difficult…not with-standing the pain I have sitting here perched on the edge of a wooden straight-back folding chair in this wreck […]