Dear Dad,
I’ve been thinking about you a lot this week. Wondering about things that happened and didn’t happen. Wondering what it would be like if….
Actually, I got to the ‘what if’ stage just about an hour ago. Read the rest of this entry »
Monarch at Longwood, August 2014
Guess what I’m writing about? Your name!
I never understood why my father insisted on being called ‘Daddy’, or why he insisted that I call you ‘Mother’! I wonder what you wanted to be called. Read the rest of this entry »
~~~~~Skyline Memorial Gardens, Portland, Oregon
I’m drifting
Tumbling through air
I reach for support
Search for you
But you elude me
Lost in sorrow and regret.
Are you lonely
without your Girls?
What can I offer
you now?
I’m not sure.
Maybe this will do
I want to write to you
Now and then
To tell you what’s happening
What I’m thinking about
What I’d like to ask you
Or say to you today
I don’t have a plan
I’m looking for
your heart so
mine can
rest.
Elouise
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© Elouise Renich Fraser, 2 December 2014
Photo Credit: DAFraser, September 2014
Telling the Truth 