Tag: family
member name: Kathy W.
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December 20, 2009 05:45 PM EST --
Chapter 1: Memory
Not the power to remember, but it’s very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. - Sholem Asch
It . . .
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June 01, 2007 09:57 PM EDT --
written by my wonderful sister, Lynne
to comfort my brother,
the year before the passing of our mother.
I don't for one minute believe that the body in the wheelchair . . .
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February 21, 2009 02:59 PM EST --
This poem for my friend Sharon, SugarMomma, is a wise woman. I first met her as a brand new member of Gather, been a couple of years ago now, and she helped me find my "Gather voice" and . . .
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June 20, 2007 05:12 PM EDT --
I am here, because...
I am a Daughter: who cares for mom in the final days, weeks, months, and years of her disease. I am a daughter who cares for dad and helps him shoulder the . . .
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September 07, 2007 12:48 PM EDT --
Please welcome my niece SayyidaJaida, who is a very interesting and intelligent woman, with extremely decided views! (The beauty of being young, of course.)
I hope that you give her . . .
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June 19, 2007 01:51 AM EDT --
Family & Friends:
Although I often laugh at the Madeline cartoon strip, and I love the character, today I received a copy of the cartoon that I have a problem with. I guess it strikes . . .
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December 13, 2007 12:19 AM EST --
Gather family: My beautiful daughter, youngest of the brood has decided to join gather. How cool is that? I guess you can tell I'm really proud of her (as a person AND as a . . .
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July 12, 2008 08:19 PM EDT --
I've sacred and honored promises to keep.
I smile when I read what once I dreamed,
My dreams were simpler then, I swear.
Of course, life itself, then simpler seemed, . . .
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October 02, 2008 12:46 AM EDT --
Burgeoning sweetly beneath the ribs of a beloved daughter
Life swoops and swirls, throbs, thrums and hums --
His heartbeat-just under hers.
Such mystery! Such history!
So, . . .
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August 05, 2007 01:27 AM EDT --
Mr. O’Rourke lives across the street. He is retired. He is old and kind. In the summer, he and his wife sit in metal lawn chairs in front of their house and pay homage to sunsets. . . .
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September 25, 2007 10:19 PM EDT --
Originally, we were supposed to be lots of people camping. My two children and spouses; my 3 grandchildren; my best buddies (2); their boy-child, his wife and babe; My sister and her family of 4 . . .
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June 01, 2007 09:47 PM EDT --
She has sad, empty eyes. Yes.
Once filled with laughter, Overflowing with loving, Stuffed with memories. Acceptance, Approval.
She gave them away--to us--all of us. In stories, in song, in . . .
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September 16, 2008 10:47 PM EDT --
I have a sister, so fair, and so smart,
She's a sister of the blood, the mind, and the heart.
But, long ago, SHE gave her heart to a man,
And a life long, strife-song, story began. . . .
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October 28, 2007 03:23 PM EDT --
Sea Dream
Oh, to be a silver dolphin!
In sun and surf just to play.
With friends to share all that sunshine
and play hooky with, day after day.
To swim . . .
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March 06, 2008 02:46 AM EST --
Yesterday, we received, as a blessing
From the Frigid Spirited Gods of Uncaring Ice,
Unrelenting Winter.
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November 24, 2007 11:24 AM EST --
Are you Listening to everything? Are you THINKING all the time? Are you contributing to the greater good? No? Well maybe it's because you think you're . . .
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December 17, 2007 02:40 AM EST --
I love to have weekend days that I can devote 100% to the grandbabies. I especially like it when they can spend Saturday night, and wake up Sunday morning with most of the day in front of us to . . .
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December 27, 2007 07:36 PM EST --
Arlene Janet Dode
My parents were married when they were not much past being children themselves.
They proceeded to have 6 children, . . .
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January 02, 2008 03:10 AM EST --
Our Family Values Aristocracy
Makes decisions based on their money.
They go to war, while singing hymns,
Risking other's family's lives and limbs--
Those families . . .
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January 11, 2009 10:47 AM EST --
Returning home is not something one does with a GPS. We'll never need one of those to find the homespot. Returning home is more something one does with the heart as the directional . . .
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