Happy
Birthday! Beth!
(February
11, 2020) Yea!
Sweet-memories!---savored…until…forever…
February
11, 1967---warm!?...Mom painting but…Beth is-coming!
I
had to work at A&P food store---Drat!...”Reverse”-gear
went-out!
Love!
At-first-sight!---Amen!...I loved you before that
special-day!
I
broke 2-rocking chairs holding you to give you a nap! Fun!-Fun!
Money
was scarce as hen’s-teeth; bread-bags were your snow-boots!
What
we did have in abundance was precious-sacred Love! Amen!
You
wanted a horse from about age-2; we soon had “Little”-Lady!
Good
ole Lady-horse taught us all to-ride! Getty-up!
Go!-Girl!
We
planted trees and shrubs and flowers; thanks for the fragrant-shade!
Fox-Lake
was a favorite-haunt and state-parks with myriad-picnics!
One
warm February you caught 22-bluegill, I got -0-! Way-to-go!
Vincent
Price Studios put Beautiful-Beth’s
picture in their mall-window!
We
played---always…I hope you found treasure-measure
as did-I!
Meramec
Springs State Park near St. James, MO! Trout-hatchery!
Hawaii!
Nashville! Chicago! Colorado! Oregon! Canada! Europe!
1st
of my straight-“A” students! Each-girl takes after their mother!? Wow!
Cardinal
ball-games! Ice-skating! Sled-riding! Trail-rides! Horse-shows!
“Little
Golden”-books! A new “Youth”-saddle for Christmas! Great!
Skipping-rocks
across the lake-surface at ole Fox-Lake! You were Good!
Talent
at the piano! Soft-ball! (Do-not pull that outside-pitch!) Hmm!?
A
.22 rifle when you turned 12!---Annie
Oakley…reborn! “10-ring!”
Bike-riding!
Nanny got her first-ever “new”-bicycle for Christmas!
Taught
you to drive! A big-help with chores on our farm! Thank-you!
Pets!
Dogs! Cats! Horses! Cattle! Sheep! Ducks! Chickens! A-turkey!
Off
to college at S.I.U.! So very-proud of your myriad-accomplishments!
Law-school
in Salem, Oregon at Willamette University! Grand-times!
3rd-year
“visiting”-student at Vanderbilt in Nashville earning a J.D.-degree.
Successful-lawyer!
Respected! Admired! Emulated! (a-judge!?---Yes!)
One
fantastic-daughter! (the kind of child parents pray for!) Thank-you!
And,
with all those accolades (and,
more)---finally…absolute-Perfection!
Z.
Tyler and our Lexi-girl!---Oh! My!...Angels
in our sacred-lives! Amen!
You
Go!-Girl! You-rock! It just gets better-’n-better!
I-promise! Amen!
Thank you! Darling-girl1
For our myriad “precious”-memories! Amen!
I
have led an undeserving “charmed” Great-life filled with sacred-blessings!
I
had the kind of children parents pray for---my Mom & Dad…got-me!?
A
cosmos-enigma: In yon begin-fiat an end-conclusion begin-redundant continuum!
(It
ends where ’ere it begins “deja-vu” all-over again---and, again…and, again…)
Faith! Family!
Freedom! Might
just be all there really---Is!
In
one eternal-instant the only mercy-blessing will be…His!
Happy
Birthday! Darling-Beth! Love, Mom &
Poppa
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