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For
My Friends and Their Families
This
collection began as a little gift of nursery rhymes, clip art, and a few
family photographs given to Xochitl at her baby shower for her expected
little girl, Lauren, in August of 2003. However, like everything else I
seem to write, it later took on a life of its own and I find myself two
months later creating an anthology of my favourite nursery rhymes, poems
and pieces of prose from my childhood and those I enjoyed sharing with my
son and my daughters when they were very young and as they grew into their
childhoods.
I hope
you will accept this gift: Johnny, Tina, Stephanie, Elisabeth, Alys,
Xochitl and Adriana. I hope you will someday read my memories and find
your own. I hope you will find, as I did, the beauty of words and the
music of rhythm and rhyme and pacing and expression found in poetry. I
hope you’ll feel the emotions of joy and hope and laughter and remembrance
in your own lives and history as you read these works. I hope you’ll
share them with your families as you go through life. I hope you’ll find
yourselves and understand your character and strengthen your spirit and
your philosophical values from these words.
And I
hope you will know, long after I am gone, that I love you and will watch
over you forever. |
