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My Mother

ʻIdál (Justice), 3 ʻAláʼ (Loftiness) 176 B.E. Wednesday, March 4, 2020

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Blogging Circle of Friends   (E) A group for WDC bloggers. #1901868 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman

DAY 2665: Write about the woman who has had the greatest impact on your life.

My Mother's birthday is fourteen day away March 19, 2020. My Mother was born on a farm in Oklahoma 99 years ago on March 19, 1921. Mama, with some assistance from my Grandparents, raised four children as a single mother. She did this at a time when single parent families were a rarity, and single mothers were looked down upon by most people.

Mama was a very talented woman. She did fabric painting and wrote poetry before Alzheimer's disease devastated her brain. She painted the shirt she is wearing in the above picture. Mom wanted to live to be 100 years old, unfortunately she didn't make it. However, she did write two poems about living to be 100>

"To Be 100" 

I have made up my mind
to live to be 100
and not be afraid of thunder.

I will walk a mile every day
to make sure I'm healthy in every way.

I hear if you eat healthy
you can become wealthy.

So I see my doctor twice a year
so that now I have no fear.

I apply my make up every day
and dress neatly in every way.

I clean my house with much zest
that it surely will be the best.

So now that I have decided
to live to be 100
I am so excited.

"After I'm 100" 

When I get to be 100,
I will still write poetry.

I will stroll down the street,
Dressed in the latest fashions.

All the men will stop and stare
I will smile to myself knowing
that the younger women
will be envious
that the me are turning to stare,
at the stylish dressed older woman
who is 100 years old.