Another birthday today! This time, my paternal grandmother. At 89, she has raised 11 children and has been keeping ovarian cancer in check for nearly 2 years. In honor of her extraordinary strength, an excerpt from a poem I wrote about visiting my family's bakery in Galway, Ireland:
...I used to wonderabout stretching everything thirteen ways. Eithne livesabove the bakery. It has stood for over a century.Downstairs, no one is still. Quite simply, we do notstretch. Do not rest. Quite simply, there is always enough.
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so sweet! xo
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