by ST, May 2025 I remember when I was young my mom told us May Day was a time to bring flowers to loved ones and the low and lonely. She encouraged us to continue that tradition. I’m sorry that nowdays that seems to be largely forgotten. I still celebrate flowers on May Day: myContinue reading “May We Remember”
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Thanks Giving: For the Heritage They Left Us
by ST, Nov 2024 My family heritage encompasses many who made the Pilgrim-age for religious freedom, from the 1620s on, including those who left the civilization of Europe & America to pioneer/settle the wilderness: some by choice, some by force. I relate to others in law who came later–such as the early 1900s–in search ofContinue reading “Thanks Giving: For the Heritage They Left Us”
The Coat of Arms
by Susan Ternyey, 1980s Far humbler than the poet whom I appeal As tutor, in aspiring to convey And ‘scribe in characters of the Ideal Those worthy merits, in this worldly fray, Which we would urge on any that we may– Most ‘specially our children and their own– That seem to us appropriate array ForContinue reading “The Coat of Arms”
Whenever I Think of the Pioneers
by Susan Ternyey, 1996 (revised 2022) With awe I ponder the fortitude of those valiant pioneers of our past. I used to feel I could never measure up to “the heritage they left us.” (Hymn, “Firm as the Mountains Around Us”) But one day as I lay in a hospital bed, paralyzed from the hipsContinue reading “Whenever I Think of the Pioneers”
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