Tag: Christmas Day

Daily Prompt: Cherish

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I cherish memories of the caregiving years with my mother and family.  I could not imagine blogs then.  My mother often asked, “Are you writing?”  She was called Home in 2004.

Grateful for a quiet Christmas this year.

And I have to review my archives to remember all I have written since the caregiving years.  One day at a time, and also trust for the “big picture” over time.

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Taking turns
Letting each other go
Only to learn again
How love grows,
Mother

(Published in Bell’s Letters Poet No. 115, Jan. 2006.)

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Ellen Grace Olinger

Christmas Day

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Christmas Day quiet morning, and time to look at photos from 2017.  Thank you for your encouragement, and also thank you to The Daily Post for the Prompts and Challenges.  As I created this post, I saw that the current challenge is 2017 Favorites.

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Lake Michigan – April 2017

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Garden journal – May 2017

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Garden journal – Wildflowers
Photo by Karl – June 2017

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Lake Michigan – July 2017

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Garden journal – August 2017

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Garden journal – October 2017

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Our Thanksgiving plant from Mentink’s Piggly Wiggly in Oostburg, Wisconsin is still lovely.  This photo is from November 2017.

A gallery:

Ellen Grace Olinger