thank you

[pennyplant]

She did have faith, and her path was her path.
It was humbling suddenly to realise: my path too is my path,
and there was so much I did not, do not, probably cannot understand, but my mother was who she was, she loved her second family more than us, so she made some progress, and there were lessons she taught me which stay with me even now.

Somewhere from her I learned my love of John's Gospel above the others! And I never forget her anger when we mocked local Jewish refugees in ignorance alongside the other children.

WRITE,

This is very beautiful and gives me much to think about.  I hope that it gives comfort to Daylily too.  I bet it will.

Pennyplant

[Hopalong]

Write,

What grace.

Hops

[Stormchild]

And Death Shall Have No Dominion
                         Dylan Thomas

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.