Tag: family
member name: HGM Moya Goatley
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October 11, 2006 04:12 AM EDT --
I was "resting my eyes" when I felt a tentative small hand on mine.
"Nonni" came the whisper.
"Hm"?
"Why are you asleep with your glasses on"?
"The better . . .
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May 19, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
Shortly after Ma died my cousin's wife died in Ireland. I was about to ring her to say that would be with her within the week, when the phone rang with the news. She had died in the night. . . .
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September 17, 2006 05:48 AM EDT --
She whispered to me
"I'm Marilyn Monroe's mother"
"She's lovely" I said
And she glowed with quiet pride,
Smiling at a secret shared.
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October 29, 2006 08:29 AM EST --
"Please look, please look up,
You're not listening with your eyes"
Said the little girl.
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November 04, 2006 07:32 PM EST --
Nurture fragile minds,
For one sharp, unthinking word
Stings for a lifetime.
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December 08, 2006 01:16 PM EST --
Funny! I thought I loved my home,
The shining chrome,
. . .
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March 12, 2007 07:45 PM EDT --
A child ran upstairs,
Down stepped a stranger, woman
Of grace and beauty.
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May 21, 2006 12:04 PM EDT --
Aidan, son of mine,
You make me laugh, no, really,
I am serious.
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March 06, 2007 07:55 AM EST --
I am returned, back amongst you again and I can't wait to catch up. I have 27+ messages to read, masses of articles to read and a few to write. It will take some time as I have to reconnect . . .
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June 16, 2007 05:59 PM EDT --
When I was a baby my mother put me in the care of my grandparents. With us lived my uncles and a cousin of theirs. Across the road lived another cousin and her children, Maureen and Ernest, . . .
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May 23, 2006 07:25 PM EDT --
This evening I was sorting through Mimi's things which I had brought home to check before sending them to the charity shop. I discovered that Mimi and I have a lot in common. We are hoarders. . . .
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July 20, 2006 02:29 PM EDT --
Many years ago, as I pushed my baby in her pram I fell to thinking that there must be more to life. Emma was one of those babies who tranquilly slept and didn't need my full attention every waking . . .
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July 27, 2006 07:02 PM EDT --
She worries because
She doesn't know where she lives.
So we stay there - where?
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August 11, 2006 06:34 PM EDT --
I said "Your friends on Gather would love to be able to meet you".
"I'd love to meet them too" she said "I'll be getting my wings soon and I'll go and visit them all". . . .
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September 16, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
Luckily for me
Mimi talks fluent Haiku,
So I speak for her.
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September 21, 2006 02:17 PM EDT --
'Twas a body blow -
"No such person" said Gather.
I'd been excluded.
Tony worked magic
And now I am back in the fold.
It was cold out there.
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November 25, 2006 02:51 PM EST --
I've been away. "Come down" said my son "I'll take you to see James Bond". How could I resist - a chance to see son, daughter-in-law, granddaughter - and James. . . .
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November 26, 2006 08:19 AM EST --
Twin rainbows coloured
My journey to see Rosie,
Presaged happy times.
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January 01, 2007 05:53 AM EST --
Blessings as plentiful as the grass that grows,
. . .
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April 25, 2007 05:40 AM EDT --
The Goatleys have been to court - to The Royal Courts of Justice in London's Strand. There was my husband and me, my son and his wife, his wife's mum and dad, two friends and the object of . . .
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