My Mother's Poems by C. Gale Perkins |
I would have a visitor each month; a tall thin woman, she was my Aunty Eunice, my Mother’s sister.
I asked her where my mother was and she said, “She is very sick”. Aunty
Eunice said that she would visit my mother following her visits with me and would tell her all about me. She told me I had Mom’s big brown eyes and her sweet singing voice.
She was like a messenger who would bring good news back and forth. I asked her if she would bring Mom someday when she got better. She promised
she would. She would give me a big hug and when she would leave, I would cry. I
missed her when she left - she was so nice and smelled so good and would make me laugh, but most of all it was her hugs. I
could not feel them too much on top of the plaster but I knew they would feel good. The answer to all the questions that were in my mind were somewhat answered in the poem which is the title
of my book, “The Baby’s Cross,” written by my Mom. The poem was written after one of the visits to me and
then to my Mom, from Aunty Eunice, who had brought the message to her along with the picture. THE BABY’S CROSS Her big brown eyes twinkle roguishly. She asked for him today and wondered, The kitten died but she never knew Yet-the cast extends from her sturdy shoulders to her knees Then when her little story of her wants are done, With a sigh, your heavy heart whispers back-AMEN By Marjorie-Logan-Willson to Gale 11/16/36 ********** The Baby’s Cross
is a memoir about a tuberculosis survivor named Gale, a young girl who fought many obstacles in her life. She was born prematurely
and with the help of a neighbor, she survived. At age two, a fall down the stairs was to take her life in a direction that
seemed almost impossible to endure at the time. The losses in her life were many, including her mother, many other family
members, and the loss of a normal childhood. C. Gale Perkins was hospitalized for twelve years at the Lakeville State Sanatorium
in Lakeville, Massachusetts with tuberculosis of the bone, which she contracted at the age of three. Gale tells about her
experiences while in the hospital during her twelve years at the sanatorium, including when she was paralyzed from the waist
down for two of these years due to an operation that went badly. ISBN-13: 978-1927360149 La Cruz Del Bebé: Memorias de una Sobreviviente de la Tuberculosis (Spanish Edition) Acerca del Autor Gale C. Perkins nació en Boston. Pasó doce años en Lakeville Sanatorio Estado de Massachusetts,
desde los tres y los quince años. Ella está orgullosa de ser una sobreviviente de la tuberculosis y una persona con una fe
fuerte. Gale cree que las experiencias que tuvo cuando era niña le han hecho la persona que es hoy en día. Ella es cálida,
amorosa, compasiva, y tiene un gran sentido del humor. Ella ama a la gente y busca el bien de todos. Gale cree en el refrán,
“Cuando la vida te da limones, haz limonada.” La Cruz Del Bebé es una memoria sobre un sobreviviente de la tuberculosis
llamada Gale, una joven que luchó contra muchos obstáculos en su vida. Ella nació prematuramente y con la ayuda de un vecino,
ella sobrevivió. A los dos años, sufrio una caída por las escaleras que fue a tomar su vida en una dirección que parecía casi
imposible de soportar en el momento. Las pérdidas en su vida eran muchos, incluyendo a su madre, muchos miembros de la familia,
y la pérdida de una infancia normal. Gale considera que las experiencias que tuvo fueron los que dieron forma a
su vida en una de la determinación, la compasión, la fe, el amor y sus logros. La historia incluye muchos milagros que ha
experimentado en su vida, los milagros que han reforzado sus creencias espirituales. La verdadera historia detrás de la caída
de Gale abajo de las escaleras se le hizo evidente mientras conducía por la carretera. Esta es una historia verdadera de la
lucha de una mujer joven para seguir con vida, y tocará los corazones de los lectores. ISBN-13: 978-1927360552 A Pumpkin for God A Pumpkin for God was inspired by my Granddaughter Keri, who was trying to
accept her Grandfathers death and did it in such a beautiful way that I felt it was a story that should be told. PURCHASE: Paperback or Ebook ****** Transcendng Time: Poems by an Angel
ISBN-13: 978-1420896534 Documentary film Echoes From Within: The Story of Lakeville Hospital ******* Before publishing this book I went back to the Lakeville State Sanitorium some 55 years after
I left there. ********* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXN-ds90n2k |
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