Eulogy for My Mom

Conni & I, 2019 Everyday since you left, I wake in the morning before the dawn.In the deep darkness I hear the birds singing,Their hearts full of faith for the coming light.How I wish I could have their faithThat light will return, and one day too I will sing again. For days I’ve been working……

Bloom

Instead of making a resolution that I never keep, a few years ago I adopted the habit of picking a word to define what I wanted in the new year. A way to set my mind on a particular path, so to speak. My word for 2021 was BLOOM. A few days ago I told……

Whole

Little girl Jean dances and colors and laughsMama teaches her to sew andtells her to stop being so sensitiveMama is her whole world and will always be thereUntil one day she isn’t anymoreInstead of her mama, Jean has a Cookie Monster puppetCookie Monster can’t help, and disappears with the rest of her world Jeanne is……

Gone girl

My inner child has her own mind

A little distraction….

https://youtu.be/SIWbjgPYcJY This morning a video of sea otters came across my newsfeed with a description that talked about having the wonderful life of a sea otter; and in the video it was a cute as a button otter on his back leisurely eating and swimming. I couldn’t find that video. Sorry. But I think the……

Six on Saturday from somewhere in Dallas

Six on Saturday