https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/82443 Youngest Daughter – 10/22/20 …and she stopped, she just stopped, uncharacteristically not heeding where she was on the sidewalk, or how many around her, or even thinking of how she should maintain her chic, stylish, no-nonsense, forward-moving,...
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Eulogy for a Younger Sister, Who Never Married and Never Had Children, Who Was Loved and Who Will Be Missed
Welcome family and friends to this celebration and send-off of our sister, Tania. To start this eulogy for my sister, I am first going to read a slightly modified version of what is written on the back of the Order of Service handout that you received when you came into the church. Our...
Taking my Sister to a Medical Procedure & the Sounds, Smells, and Sights of Life
In February, two nieces and I took my sister to a medical clinic for a cancer related procedure. It took us all a month it seemed to set it up, to work out all the details, insurance and logistics, and to coax and convince, and mentally and emotionally prepare my sister – and all of us - for...
The Sign I held in Protest is Coming Apart, the Glue is Losing its Grip
The sign I held in protest is coming apart; the glue is losing its grip. It leans against the wall behind the open door to my study out of sight, but when I close the door to work at my desk in peace with quiet, I always see it, and I make no attempt to fix it. I prefer it now as it...
Postcard Story – Irises – Vincent Van Gogh – 1890 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436528 (In Public Domain) Third Sister – 10/14/20 …when a certain flower or bush grows like weeds in the garden of your childhood, sometimes it is overlooked or ignored, or even not seen, even when it is right in front of you later in life, when,...
Dream A World Anew – The African-American Experience and the Shaping of America National Museum of African-American History and Culture Smithsonian Books, Washington, DC
I purchased this book on a visit to the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in October 2018, a few years after this museum opened. Our visit to the museum was short because of time constraints, only about four hours, and all the rest of the family moved through the entire...
Post Concerning Young Granddaughter’s Loss of a Friend in 5th Grade from Cancer & Our Correspondence and Communication Over Her Loss & the Decline and Passing of My Sister also from Cancer
February 22, 2021 - To Granddaughter Granddaughter, I will see My Sister this evening and I will give her your greetings. Also, granddaughter, I would like to make a post for my website of the letter that I wrote you when your friend died. I think it would be a good way to minister to...
Postcard Story – View of Vetheuil – Claude Monet – 1880 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437110 Second Sister - 09/25/20 …and as she walked, for some reason just by herself, not being opposed to another beside her, but this time, as occasionally is her wont, she walks alone, for now her steps, yes, are hers alone, but also her pauses,...







