Happy Birthday once again.
Are you celebrating, I wonder, with your brothers? The last one left this life today. Are y'all happy? Are y'all fighting? Enjoying yourselves with a shoutfest? Romping and Stomping.
Yeah, I kinda like thinking of you all together, and I hate it, too, because every one there is leaving big, huge, terrible holes in the everyday of people here.
Tonight Hailey proved she was yours (and her mother's, of course). We were leaving the park. It's not quite dark, and there's a big bright white gibbous-to-full moon.
"Oh," I said. "I can see the man in the moon tonight."
"There's a man in the moon?" Hailey says.
Warren shouts out, from the back seat, "It's a FACE! Mammaw, it's a face!"
I said, "Yes, it looks like a face. That's why we call it the man in the moon."
Hailey says,
Where? All I see are dots and shadows."
Yep.
She may look Ruhstaller, but that's her mommy in her.
Poor kid.
Are you celebrating, I wonder, with your brothers? The last one left this life today. Are y'all happy? Are y'all fighting? Enjoying yourselves with a shoutfest? Romping and Stomping.
Yeah, I kinda like thinking of you all together, and I hate it, too, because every one there is leaving big, huge, terrible holes in the everyday of people here.
Tonight Hailey proved she was yours (and her mother's, of course). We were leaving the park. It's not quite dark, and there's a big bright white gibbous-to-full moon."Oh," I said. "I can see the man in the moon tonight."
"There's a man in the moon?" Hailey says.
Warren shouts out, from the back seat, "It's a FACE! Mammaw, it's a face!"
I said, "Yes, it looks like a face. That's why we call it the man in the moon."
Hailey says,
Where? All I see are dots and shadows."
Yep.
She may look Ruhstaller, but that's her mommy in her.
Poor kid.
