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ʻIdál (Justice), 3 ʻAláʼ (Loftiness) 176 B.E. Wednesday, March 4, 2020
DAY 2665: Write about the woman who has had the greatest impact on your life. My Mother's birthday is fourteen day away March 19, 2020. My Mother was born on a farm in Oklahoma 99 years ago on March 19, 1921. Mama, with some assistance from my Grandparents, raised four children as a single mother. She did this at a time when single parent families were a rarity, and single mothers were looked down upon by most people. Mama was a very talented woman. She did fabric painting and wrote poetry before Alzheimer's disease devastated her brain. She painted the shirt she is wearing in the above picture. Mom wanted to live to be 100 years old, unfortunately she didn't make it. However, she did write two poems about living to be 100> I have made up my mind to live to be 100 and not be afraid of thunder. I will walk a mile every day to make sure I'm healthy in every way. I hear if you eat healthy you can become wealthy. So I see my doctor twice a year so that now I have no fear. I apply my make up every day and dress neatly in every way. I clean my house with much zest that it surely will be the best. So now that I have decided to live to be 100 I am so excited. When I get to be 100, I will still write poetry. I will stroll down the street, Dressed in the latest fashions. All the men will stop and stare I will smile to myself knowing that the younger women will be envious that the me are turning to stare, at the stylish dressed older woman who is 100 years old. |