Please visit the ever
entertaining Tabatha Yeatts at The Opposite of
Indifference, who is hosting Poetry Friday today. There’s all kinds of poetry sharing to be
discovered! Thanks very much Tabatha!
I have been sifting through many
boxes of things stored in our house for some time; some from my mother-in-law's things. In one of
those boxes, I found a diary written by her mother, whose son fought in World
War II. The diary is simply written, the
words of a farmwoman who rose each day and cleaned, visited, baked, canned,
sewed, washed and hung clothes to dry, sometimes in the basement when it was
too cold out and the clothes would freeze on the line. On Sundays, she attended church. Those are the tasks she recorded of her
life. On the inside cover, she
wrote: Be a lamplighter. We shall shine as the stars of the morning, something
for us all to aspire to.