CAROLYN’S COMPOSITIONS
CAROLYN
Rustie Earle
Today, December 10, is my birthday—I won’t say which one, but I’m well over 18 years old. Rustie, a blind poet who composes on a tape recorder wrote an acrostic poem about me, titled simply CAROLYN, to celebrate my birthday one year. (a link to another of Rustie’s posts is included in the ADDITIONAL READING list below)
C is for character, no matter how you mean it.
A is for (more…)
CAROLYN’S COMPOSITIONS
THE THANKSGIVING BABY
Rustie Earle
It was great to feel your baby kick, to feel it move around.
I hope that it’s healthy and happy, born weighing seven and one half pounds.
May you always remember, this is God’s gift from above,
And may each become guilty (more…)
During Lent in 2007 the Beanery Online Literary Magazine, in conjunction with the Open Hands Ministries (a web site for the Open Hands and the United Methodist Churches in the Ligonier Valley, PA) posted forty days of Lent devotions. This year, I will repost one every five days, with links to additional devotions at the end of each reading.
SCRIPTURE: Mark 14:8 She (an unnamed woman) did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. (NIV)
REFLECTION: Jesus was supportive of the simple but elegant gift given by an unknown woman. He explained its symbolic meaning: (more…)
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Disability Doesn’t Mean Disabled: Two Role Models
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CAROLYN’S COMPOSITIONS
DISABILITY DOESN’T MEAN DISABLED:
TWO ROLE MODELS
After becoming legally blind, Janice Greer worked for a time as a typesetter and later sewed costumes for her children’s high school plays, according to her daughter Aimee Coleman and son Thomas Greer. Although both will miss their mother, who died from cancer on April 12, 2011, they will cherish the memories of her being a role model.*
Reading this Janice Greer’s obituary reminded me of two important people I’ve known on this journey called life.
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One result of my parent’s divorce was that I was separated from my father’s family. I didn’t meet my paternal aunt, Nyllis Gardner, until I was well into adulthood. When I met her, was wheelchair bound and bedridden, and her hands were grossly distorted from arthritis. Yet she managed to hand stitch Barbie doll clothes for her church bizarre. She also made needlework items on plastic canvas.
Nyllis Gardner's hand-stitched Barbie Doll clothes
Watching her work made me realize what a struggle it was for her to create the many (more…)