A GOOD MORNING!!!

 THINKING 💬

Friday, October 18, 2024
7:59 AM

(By: Karla Wagener. As I wake up each morning the first thing I see is a picture my friend Diana gave me when we reunited after about 40 years, in 2023. Then I see a picture Joyce gave me in that same trip to New Mexico who I hadn't seen in about 24 years. It's hung in the kitchen and says "love, peace and happiness" on it. After that I walk outside and see the miniature rose plant Andrea's mother-in-law gave me one of the first Christmas when Andrea started dating Facundo. It's still blooming even though it looks like it will wither away every winter. So many people meaning so much! Like the Turkish teacups Paula gave me, the tiny glass Cristo Rey Luciano brought back from Brazil, The shawls, clothes, items from the Vatican, jewelry, pictures and photo albums from the Christmas family reunion in 1998, and mostly so many gatherings and great memories.)

There are moments
When I think of you.
Thinking about many things
And a full moon, the blues.

So often so little is said.
So much left for
That dreary, eventual
Old life, or death bed!

So I hold many things
In this battered heart.
And express gently how
"I love you"
Each time that we part!