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Monthly Archive for February, 2012

Mary Jones Dickens Pierce August 25, 1925 – February 1, 2012   “It is a sign of life well lived when you leave the funeral with a smile on your face.”  Angela Drezner, D.C. My very first memories with Mama are colored in a mixture of kindness and love in the midst of pain – [...]

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The event described in my poem below took place yesterday during my preparations the morning of my mother’s funeral. Her send-off was quite glorious, by the way.   The contents of my button drawer splattered on the bathroom floor. A friend with Sight said he just might snap a pic for evermore.   And so [...]

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I’ve had two hours of sleep; my blessed mother died last night. It is a strange, strange  world we live in where death means that everything must now be hurried. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have miles to go before I sleep.” I have been imagining my mother now that she’s [...]

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  Out in the Fields With God The little cares that fretted me I lost them yesterday Among the fields, above the sea, Among the winds at play, Among the lowing of the herds, The rustling of the trees, Among the singing of the birds, The humming of the bees. The foolish fears of what [...]

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