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Thursday challenge
now posting April 6 2006
Current Theme is “PATTERNS”
(Stripes, Tiger, Zebra, Spots, Leopard, Tiles, Snowflakes, Textiles, Polkadots, Floral, Paisley, Quilts, Carpets, Waves,…)
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Daily Archives: April 11, 2006
April 11th, 2006 / Categories: Moose Nuggets /
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April 11th, 2006 / Categories: Family /
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Dear Mom,
Your hands always fascinated me. You were artistic in ways I don’t think you even knew. You doodled stories out on rainy days – a line of verse or prose spoken for every line drawn – suddenly it was not longer lines or shapes, but a pig – a house! I was entranced by that ability.
Your hands comforted me. When I was sick you touched me and I was suddenly better. It is only in looking back that I remember how rough and reddened they were – how the blue veins popped up, and the translucence of your skin.
Back then, it was the touch, the heart behind the touch, that meant so much. We had a bond. Your hands touched mine – from date of birth (mine) until date of death (yours) as I begged you to tell me with a squeeze of your fingers that you knew who I was. My pleas unanswered, your hand lay limp in mine.
That night after you died I lay in my bed and I couldn’t remember if I had said “I love you” or “I’m sorry,” or begged your forgiveness for the times I caused you to raise your hands in anger more often than in praise.
I can’t go back – and you can’t come back – so I will pass my hands-on learning to my own girls and their babies and pray that it is enough.
Love carries on – your hand to mine to theirs to . . . .
With love,
your daughter
My Mom
April 11, 1918 – October 23, 1973
photo is of my Mom and me – taken 1950 in Ohio where I was born
April 11th, 2006 / Categories: Moose Nuggets /
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Don’t think you can get much more thoughtless . . . mindless . . . than the “electronic income reducer” as a business associate calls it.
effect was pretty easily accomplished – I held the button down while moving the camera quickly back and forth.