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Visiting Rosie

Visiting Rosie is a very special time together

Talking to someone who has been around

More than 90 years

Sharing many of those years with you

And a few with me in my youth.

We talk and look at photos and videos

Telling Rosie about the places we have been

Answering her animated questions

Enjoying her enjoyment of us

Marveling at her quick wit and good humor.

Milt is there, too, happy to talk with us.

We listen amazed and delighted

Munching on the cookies Rosie baked

Discussing the best upgrade for her computer

Making plans for getting together more often.

Here is this person who is interested in new things

Telling us about the documentaries she has been watching

Learning, absorbing information and sharing

What she knows, caring about everyone

Here now and in the future.

We brought binoculars for you to look

Across the way from her bedroom window

To identify the big old tree as a red oak

Standing there as a companion to Rosie

Looking at it each day from her apartment. 

They don’t get out much any more

Milt and Rosie, life partners for such a long time,

But for us it is such a gift that they are here

For us to have a conversation

Filled with such sweetness and light.

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a week to go

A week to go now before your surgery

Counting down the days in July in 2013

Your family and friends helping you

Ready for the cancer to be excised.

I think of your two young children

And remember being a child of 13

When my mother was stricken with cancer

Though no one told her or us what it was.

I think of you preparing yourself

And remember how it was for me

When I was diagnosed and waiting

My turn on the surgeon’s table.

I send you the thoughts in my heart.

May you have the strength to bear what you must.

May your children know their mother’s love is assured.

May your husband be your comfort and help.

Everyone’s life changes over time

But sometimes it changes overnight.

We don’t get to choose what comes our way

How we respond reveals who we are.

We can cherish each day we are given

Tell the people we love that we love them

Let go of any minor annoyances

And enjoy the time we have with each other.

the person you are

It’s happy for me and all the people in your life

That you were born

And became the person you are

All these years every day

We know you will be good to us

Living with you is a pleasure.

It’s not easy getting old if you’re aware

Each year is gone never to be lived again

One less year left to be a human being

No matter that it was a good year

A certain sadness visits our thoughts

Thinking of loved ones taken from us.

Time stretches out more behind us than ahead

Looking back generation upon generation

Back and back to the beginning of life and the universe

It’s harder to imagine far into the future

We make plans for this year and next

We think about what might be 5 or 10 years from now.

Time stands still when you are in the moment

Today we are here with each other very much alive

We marvel at this amazing complex experience

Taking in what’s going on around us and with us

The flow of events near us and far distant

We have such a wonderful life. 

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