Earlier this morning, I was lost in thought about my son-in-law, Michael, who passed-away six years ago.
Like living film clips, similar to the windows in my last post, I remembered Michael’s conversations with me in the hospital. He apologized for his life coming to an end. He spoke of innocent mistakes he had made. He spoke with pride of his wife, her accomplishments and strength. And his two sons, his concern for them and his aspirations for them. He thanked me for nurturing their musicality.
From out of no where, he shouted, “HEY!” He was right next to me, but sounding a bit like he shouted through a tunnel. I smiled, “I hear you honey. I know you’re here and I thank you. Mom loves you.”
Then I remembered him telling me more than once, “Sometimes you have to get a little crazy to get their attention.”
It is comforting to know that Michael is not dead, but lives. On the other side of the veil, yes. But he lives. He visits, he watches over us, and he loves us still and eternally, as we do him.
I am grateful that our dear Michael got my attention today, on Memorial Day.
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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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