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This small and simple book was one of my mother's favorites, a collection of poems by famous authors and some written by a fellow farm woman, a soulmate, who saw the world much like mom. Poems like "The Children's Hour" by Henry Wadsworth…

I didn’t have a great relationship with my mom but we did share one story. On my birthday throughout my life, she would tell me about the morning of my birth. She had been quite depressed however happened to look toward the window sill and there sat…

My Mother went to a One-Room Schoolhouse. I look at this and I’m there. I’m in the super-quiet, empty schoolhouse imaging how great it must have been.

This lump of lead is, I suppose, meant to resemble a Bichon-Frisée dog. My mom had such an animal at the time she died, named Louie. Somehow this item came into my possession when the various trinkets were divvied up among the survivors. I never…

My mom was the strongest woman I ever met and yet a disease was able to take her when she was just 52. A disease that tried to stop her by first taking one of her legs. She had none of it. After healing, she rejoined her weekly bowling league. When…

The object that reminds me of grief? My right hand wearing the blue sapphire ring.

There are times I look down at my hand and I see my mothers hand - same fingers, the same faint blue veins and wrinkles - and the ring. The ring she wore her…

Me and my mom bought them together with different stones for my bday. It mostly makes me happy but when I think about it.. and my mom.. how much she sacrificed for us, for dad. I just want her to be happy and do whatever she wants but she can’t, and…

My mom is a pretty devout Catholic. I can't remember if she gave me this rosary after the death of my grandma in 2013 or after my cousin was killed in a car accident a year and a half later. She told me to hold the cross in my hand and wrap the beads…