by ST, May 2026 Mother, may I be one you delight to call your daughter.May I live a life you would take joy in.May I step forward and not back,May my progress not be stolen, but won.May I pass on the heritage you passed on to me–May we embrace with sweet memories when once againContinue reading “Mother May I”
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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”
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