Our Children, Yes, a Village

"To My Child " quoted in Charles L Wallis, ed. The Treasure Chest (l965)

You are the trip I did not take;
You are the pearls I cannot buy;
You are my blue Italian lake;
You are my piece of foreign sky.

I used to have a chair that needed to be reupholstered; however, family expenditures kept taking precedence, and the chair became a symbol for my family needing to be taken care of before I needed a pretty chair.

I finally gave the chair to a charity and I have never missed it.

[from blog reader Sonia in Utah]