My grandmother, who died twenty-five years ago, visited me in dreamland last night.
When I was a youngster, she spoke one day about when she and Grampy would grow old. She worried where they would go and how they would take care of themselves.
I told her, “Don’t worry Grammy. When you and Grampy get old, you can come live with me. I’ll take care of you.”
“That’s good to know,” she said.
The years passed. Grampy died and Grammy lived on for several more years. The day came when she had to go into a nursing home. I worked outside my home and could not take her in and take care of her, but I’ve always felt guilty for not keeping that promise I made as a child.
Last night, she showed me a lot. She lived with me (in my dream visit.) She and I shared a bedroom. She was in her bed resting. I showed her the scene outside the window, with our turkeys and other birds. There was even a black and white cow laying on the green grass. (The cow looked just like those on Grampy and Grammy’s farm when I was a child.)
Grammy and I were happy and loving. But she reached out beside her and closed the drapes. She said she had to rest. And there was darkness.
What did this visit show me?
Forgiveness. I believe she let me know that there were no hard feelings about my not taking her in. She also showed me that she is resting now.
She had to close the drapes and go back to her rest.
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As a toddler, Sue Baumgardner made up stories for herself looking at books she could not read and later spun tales for her younger sisters. After she had her own children, she told them tales and eventually wove a new pattern into the fabric of their lives. As the three sat together, one would begin with a story idea of her own. She spoke perhaps a paragraph or two or three, then pointed to the next who would take up the thread and continue with her own evolution of the story line passed to her, until she pointed to the next. The third person wove her own ideas into the story progression. After the three each had a turn, anyone could end the story, in their turn, whenever it felt complete to them.
After her children were adults, Sue studied writing, first poetry and then prose. After six semesters in adult education, she was thoroughly hooked on the story art form. Sue continued with dozens of classes, seminars and writing retreats. She studied writing and publishing under the likes of James Patterson, Peter Behrens, and Mark Dawson.
As a contributor to the Discover Maine Magazine, Sue received her first check for her prose.
Her poetry has been published in The Aurorian.
She has six of her paperbacks along with four ebooks published. They include fiction and nonfiction for adults and fiction for Middle Readers.
Her very first publishing though began with Greeting Card Universe, where Sue’s greeting cards with verse are sold across the world.
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