Mama

Your arms were always open when I needed a hug.
Your heart understood when I needed a friend.
Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson.
Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly.
[Sarah Malin]
This photo of my mama (Rachel Misegades, 1906–2001) was taken sometime in the 1950s.
Mama was a hand [...]

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“…threescore years and ten…”

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with snow along the bow,
And stands about the woodland ride,
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now of my threescore years and ten
Twenty will not come again.
And take from seventy Springs a score,
It leaves me only fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty Springs is little room,
About the woodland I [...]

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