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  Visit for a plethora of poems about the November 23 prompt: childhood memories on the move, south mother with crushing sadness worse in winter loving the warm sand and gentle breezes palm bay me, two, sitting on the john somewhere south of the mason-dixon Read More... Posted Sunday, November 23, 2008 11:00 AM by Beth Patterson | 19 Comments Filed under: ancestors, acceptance, gratitude, aging gracefully, blessings, calling things by their right name

• On the 30th anniversary of my mother's death

  My niece Dione, who I was fortunate to help raise, and who of course, helped raise me at the same time...with her son beautiful son Edan. Mom died 3 years before Dione was born. Dione was very close to my Father for the first 6 years of her life before Read More... Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 5:47 AM by Beth Patterson | 4 Comments Filed under: ancestors, 7 generations, eccentricity, blooming where we're planted, gratitude, ancestry, abundance, motherless daughters