What did you learn from your mom?
I didn't have room to list everything she taught me.
Wonder if I should send her a Father's Day card, too, since she's my mother and father now.
Hummingbird feeder - not a single one yet PLUS three bird houses
Here's the back of the bird houses. My note to the birds: You must enter by the front door.
We're doing very well, say the flowers. The yellow pansy in the foreground reseeded herself, as did all the pansies. I am curtseying now in thanks.
All three bird houses are inhabited as of today. What a thrill. Must do an internet search to find out what kind of birds they are.
Archival photo of today's Intelligencer, which is still a daily. Used to work at their Easton Road office in Warminster as a copy writer. Now I write an occasional Guest Column.
Wrote my Guest Column - which I titled "President Obama Endorses Mental Health Month - in about an hour. Couldn't believe how fast I did it. Crammed in a lot of info in the required 700 words.
Then I shipped it off to my boss for her approval. Ada had a good point, which I incorporated in the revised copy, before I sent it to Editorial Page Editor, Alan Kerr, who's won awards for his work.
Among other things, I spoke about people from New Directions and their numerous accomplishments.
Had a call from a Family Member today. I'd recommended several psychiatrists for her young son. Two of our most esteemed psychiatrists did not take a full psych evaluation nor acknowledge the bipolar family history of the young man, who recently was manic and locked up in a horrible facility 75 miles from home.
I gave her more names, but it takes two months to get a 'new patient' appointment, which I said in my newspaper article.
Neighbor Bob across the street in his white t-shirt, retired last month during "The Sequester." At first, I didn't know what he was talking about. An earthquake? A sinkhole?
How are you handling it, I asked him.
Well, as a guy who retired before me said, "It took about 20 minutes."
He can now catch up with his gardening and he power-washed his white picket fence. He can devote more time to church activities, including becoming a Bible Study Teacher - he does believe in evolution - and he served as a judge at Drexel U, his alma mater, for middle school science students who had an underwater robotics project. I think. Don't quote me. It would look funny if I took notes while visiting my neighbors.
Three baby robins in the rose bush near my front door.
WHY I
LIKE FLOWERS
In a
small room with
white
walls
I sat
bare-bottomed
sandaled
feet removed from
the stirrups
and she
told me my uterus
has grown
smaller with age
‘shrunk’
was the word she used
invisible
behind the summer shorts
I would
put on
Sometimes
they remove it when it gets old
like a
tree taken down
Stay with
me, I say,
Who else
has been so patient
so
steadfast
made just
for me
swelling
just so
when the
babies bulged inside
the
perfect incubator
so, it
bled a drop of blood
or two
a
protest, I suppose, a cry,
a tear of
sorrow
for what
once was.
Driving
home with a Beethoven
Quartet
making the spring air
even more
beautiful
I wonder
why people like flowers.
Are we a
kind of flower?
To cup a
flower in your hand
is to see
a world without
perfidy,
malignancy, cruelty
we see
ourselves as once we were
the
innocence and yearning
of the
newborn.
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