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"They're only memories if we actually remember them"

One of my 'wise-guys' replied yesterday 

when I suggested they go make a memory for family-day!

Photos are great memory-savers...

funny how a photo wakes pages long heart-preserved!

Today's page holds a 'hey Jim, remember when the basement flooded  in the middle of winter

and you were home because you were recovering from your bladder-surgery?' 

But with life's 'lows' come lots of 'highs'

today,a visit from Uncle Oscar,

Roses a few days ago (thank-you again, Lucy and Karen)...

...flowers from our church family...thank-you!!!

I admired these purple beauties longingly last week...

...when I dropped in to Foodland to pick up strawberries for Valentine's Day dinner,

  ...and last 

but not least HIGHLIGHT!!!,

 Tessa and Scott win gold!

...memories; some we make, some we simply take!

This page of time we hold but once

Then fold, oft without second glance

Where much we touch, like lost Rembrandts

Scatter where thought cannot ensconce

For long the wants and wars we wage

Before dusk falls and turns the page

This interplay of sound and sight

Of hold-me-tight before farewell

Tables love’s ache within a shell

Cognizant of time’s fading light

Fills pages scattered in a hall

Like tatters we but half-recall

This hope-and-hunger thoroughfare

Of happy highs and lonesome lows

Of here-it-is and there-it-goes

As ‘oh-no’s learn to turn to prayer

Takes moments, some soon lost, some saved

On pages in the heart engraved

© Janet Martin