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You are here.

April 19, 2013 | Under Uncategorized | Posted by | No Comments

You are here, my child.  You are here in my arms. I study your face;  the creases on your chubby little arms, legs…  I listen to your breaths…captivated by the rise and fall of your chest…  I watch you watching this new world around you…  each day your eyes –  transfixed at the sounds, smells,…

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Two in One

December 3, 2012 | Under Uncategorized | Posted by | 1 Comment

You are cartwheeling, somersaulting, wiggling and squirming about inside me, Dear One. My swollen belly contains you now, but you are restless, making your presence ever known. How we are anticipating your arrival into this World.  We love you so. Your sisters sit on either side of me, gently rest their tiny hands on my…

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Faithful friend

July 24, 2012 | Under Uncategorized | Posted by | No Comments

Dear faithful friend How I have missed you.  How I have longed to see you…  to know the refreshment that you give my soul each time I am by your side. And I have felt your presence again and it was as wondrous as the last time. Your mighty waves crashing upon the shore Sparkling…

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Your dancing brown eyes

April 23, 2012 | Under Uncategorized | Posted by | No Comments

  Your dancing brown eyes, long dark lashes have grown dim your once swollen cheeks starved, skeletal gaunt. Your parched lips, with tongue stuck to the roof of your mouth, try to utter a word: silence. Cries of anguish deafen you Where is the music of your childhood that marked your days and nights? The…

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It is Spring here in the South. And for the first time in the 5 and a half years that I have been here, I am actually seeing the trees this year.  I see them. For the first time in 5 and a half years, I can see Spring. Rows and rows of dogwood blooming…

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