Special people & books

Historical Photo:

            
               Stella Kelly Poole  born 1914
               (Bonney's Granny)


Most fiction books Sherry and I read go into lending libraries or given to friends. In the motor home we no longer have the luxury of storing them. However my wife just a few weeks ago requested a copy of every book I had written. She wants to display them in our home in Florida. Of course she now has them.
I have several special books sent to me by friends. They are special and I have found space for them. A couple are special.
I have in/on my desk. One from friend Myra (over at Respire, Prospice) called ‘The Conversation Piece’, very unique. When I need a good swift kick, I open it. Questions like this pop up and make me THINK: If you could walk into any painting and actually experience the moment it depicts, which painting would you choose?  
Uh, doggies, I am still thinking there. I chose a historical photograph first, but my mind said, no cheating, painting. (Right now I am looking at a painting of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, still not sure)
Another book I take out when the sun is shining, and I am not pushed with any drive to fix something. A special book of Poetry. What I call real poetry like Mrs Grill wanted me to read in the 7^th grade. The book given to me by Bonny of ‘Organ Discourse.’  A sweet book written by her Granny Stella Kelly Poole.
I can jump into and out of a novel or western, but poetry requires the right time. Poems do not get old. They are like the songs we sing over and over again, I can do the same with poetry.
Granny’s poems cover life. One of seeing a son get on a plane, called to serve his country, leaving family behind. One that always gets me because I have so many on the ‘other side’. This is the beginning of a tribute to her brother:

Brother is gone but he’s awaiting

For me on the other side

And I know that I shall see him

When I cross the rolling tide

Yes I know I will meet dear brother

In that city bright and fair

I know that he is waiting

For he promised he would be there.

There is something special about ‘STUFF’ written by someone who is the salt of the earth. Like ladies who have scrubbed clothes, raised a garden, canned green beans, milked a cow, fried eggs and made corn bread. Someone with a full day and still time to put words together that sang to her heart. She called her book, “Come Sing With Me.”
Thanks guys.  I have a couple more special books I cannot discard. But that is what I am thinking tonight.

Nite Shipslog

PS: Little known facts about the USA

                                Thanks.. Tony D.

In 1922, a man built a house and all his furniture entirely out of 100,000 newspapers.  The structure still stands today in Rockport, Massachusetts.

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 This car was a year old when Stella was born.