I was born on November 8. It was around 5 a.m. and I weighed five pounds. I had to stay in the hospital for awhile though because I was not eating, I lost weight, and they thought I could be deaf and had some muscle slowness issues (something like that). Dad accepted this, Mom fought it, and got more opinions; thankfully, I was okay.
My earliest memories are sitting on dad's shoulders, as he walked around the house, going to nursery school at Dad's church basement with Mom. I remember when I was four and had very long hair, sitting on Mom and Dad's HUGE king-size bed with the powder blue satin comforter, and having Mom toil with brushing all the knots out of my hair, and putting it into a big bun on the top of my head secured with an artillery of bobby pins, and made pretty with a colored bow.
I remember sitting in the family room on the flor while Mom taught me how to draw a Christmas tree realistically. I remember watching Bozo Circus with Eric in the morning, and when they yelled, "WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE CLOWN?" yelling "COOKIE" as everyone else yelled "BOZO!" I remember Mom teaching me our address and phone number on the stairs (Dad too)...."
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"Nature is not lavish of her
beauties; they are widely
scattered, and occasionally
displayed, to be selected with
care, and gathered with difficulty.
George Gordon
Lord Byron 1788-1824 (letter to John Murray)
Oh, did you ne'er hear of the
Blarney,
That's found near the banks
of Killarney?
Believe it fromme,
No girl's heart is free,
once she hears the sweet sounds
of the Blarney.
When Erin first rose from the dark swelling flood
God bless'd the Green Island,
and saw it was good:
The em'rald of Europe,
it sparkled and shone--
In the ring of the world the most
precious stone. ....William Drennan
Irish poets, learn your trade,
Sing whatever is well made.".....William Butler Yeats
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