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Category: Gratitude
The Book of Kells by Barbara Crooker
I am enjoying The Book of Kells, by Barbara Crooker (2019, Cascade Books).
Barbara Crooker’s website has more information. For example, you may wish to see her BOOKS page, and read her Poem of the Month.
Eye of the Beholder by Luci Shaw
Today is very cold and also sunny. I love the light in the corner of my study.
I am enjoying Eye of the Beholder, by Luci Shaw.
There is a page for her book at Paraclete Press. The page includes media – a short video with a poem from her book.
books and music
books and music
from over the years
live on these shelves
even if I don’t
reread or listen again
somehow their
healing influence
is in these words
older now
and when I shop
and when those who
help me are so kind
I am truly blessed
Poems from my archives
Through Pandora, I have been introduced to new music. Some of the artists are Helen Jane Long, Brian Crain, and Karen Marie Garrett. I bought a few CDs from Amazon. I like seeing the designs of the CDs, reading the notes, and being able to listen to a whole work by one artist.
And I am so grateful for kindness – here with our blogs, in our town, and other places. Thank you!
Ellen Grace Olinger
God’s Grace
Today is my mother’s birthday. She was called Home 15 years ago. Hard to comprehend the time. One nice feature of blogging is that it creates a record, a journal. I wrote this poem soon after my mother’s passing. Love endures, and continues to grow.
GOD’S GRACE
You went on
After more losses
Than I can name
With you as
Mother and model
I must do the same
You suffered and
I do not ask you
To bear more pain
You are eternally well
Still saying “I love you”
Again and again
Published in Bell’s Letters Poet 109 and The Discerning Poet (Autumn 2004).
Ellen Grace Olinger
The crocuses are courtesy of wpclipart.
love, memory, and hope
taking turns
letting each other go
only to learn again
how love grows,
Mother
another year has passed
since my mother’s passing
I sit and quietly read
a book she would like too
in loving memory
Enola M. Borgh (1917 – 2004)
But he knoweth the way that I take:
when he hath tried me,
I shall come forth as gold.
Job 23: 10 (KJV)
H ave faith as you journey
O n and trust God’s love and
P romises for you
E ven today and then always
“taking turns” was published in Bell’s Letters Poet (No. 115, January 2006).
Image: wpclipart
Ellen Grace Olinger
Thank you
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Ellen Grace Olinger
