About Mo

I've been married to a wonderful man for 46 years. I love him more now than when we got married. He wants to live for 30 more years (yikes!) so I need to hang around to make sure he is properly looked after in his older years. Elderly people can be misunderstood and mistreated, and I want to ensure that does not happen to my sweetheart.

Which brings me to how I was able to help my elderly dad. See my home page. If you're interested on how I ran interference for him, please contact me. 

 What is a Man...  

What character, sweet man, makes you that -- a man?

The question mulled and observations done, response is this:

He gives his word, and sees he does as said.

Committed to family, friends, his groups and self, his duties he performs despite opposition; in the face of failure; with burdens, losses, and often alone.

Yet still he strives and makes it all come out to good in soon or later time.

These acts of ethics, the quiet conscious states that do not sway, nor break, nor bend in weakness' way,

They hold a torch of truth so all can see.

And regarded for such, or scorned as fool, the admiration's there for that's his strength -- not brawn, nor fortune, name nor friends.

And all innately know it's key to basic self.

It opens doors; it gently makes the very force of universe submit on bended knee to any man who stands with certainty on just actions done as ultimately kind.

Man, I recognize you: responsibility defined.

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Mom

As I grew close to the age when my mother died

I feared that I too would go young.

But I passed that age!

And now as I near 77,

although it takes me longer to get down on my knees to clean the floor and up again,

and sometimes feel like death warmed over when I first wake up in the morn,

I know that once I get the body moving and look to future events and things I want to do,

I'm alive!

Unfortunately, my mom had not the tools to resolve her sorrow--which, basically, was lack of real communication; and at the time I didn't know how to communicate, either.

Now I do.

If she were here, I know now I could help her.

When I say goodbye to this life

I know where I'm going, I know who I will look for to spend next lifetime with.

I have my dreams for the future whether it's with this body or a brand new little body to start me on the way of whatever I want to create.

I like life. I'm not alone in that.

Laughter is the shortest distance between

 two people. Victor Borge

The path to violence is paved with lies.

Jeffrey Murphy

There is so much good in the worst of us,

And so much bad in the best of us,

That it ill behooves any of us

to talk about the rest of us.

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