(picture courtesy of: http://alyoung.com/Art_Gallery/Al_Young/Figure_Paintings/3.00.0241.010.html)
(Today would have been my Mother’s
87th birthday, had she lived. She
unexpectedly left this life a few months after she turned 67. For her
first birthday in Heaven, I sat down to write a short piece about
her, to be published in our small town newspaper. When the text took
a different turn, which was not really appropriate for the
Obituary/Tribute section, I just tucked it away in my mement...
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