For My Mother at 75
Obviously, I didn’t take this photo (I’d have been young to be doing such good self-portraits!)
Posts Tagged ‘2005’
Birthday 2005
I liked “Blessing” so much, I basically tried to recreate it. This “copy”, as might be expected, isn’t as effective, In think. But I thought it was cool that it could be read horizontally or vertically, with the rhyme with each set of 4 (horizontally) or within each set of 4 (vertically). My read is of it vertically.
Passover 2005
Maybe more political than a holiday would warrant, it troubled me that we were talking about religious freedom when the extremists in our country seemed to be gaining the upper hand.
Valentine’s Day 2005
Not long after we’d met, I gave Mark a book that’d had a profound impact on me–Conversations with God. In the inscription, I asked him to “Take a walk with me.” The December before this Valentines day, our home was flooded and we were forced to vacate it for months while it was restored.
Holiday 2005
Katrina was followed by the Tsunami in the far east. A friend told me about how he and members of his church got in a truck and went to New Orleans to help folks rebuild. I read of other stories like this–and they blew me away.
