Today, Like Every Other Day

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
~ Rumi

Happy 81st Birthday,
to the woman who has not only taught but also shown me,
that there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
I love you.

Jeanette Alden Bennett Phelps!

Los Angeles, California 1935
Six years old with her elder brother Norman
and younger brother Charles

1946 – Top of her class at LA High

June 19, 1948 – Mr. and Mrs. Dean Phelps

1962 – Baby #5

1966-ish

1977  – Dancing with her younger brother, Chuck

Late 70’s

60th wedding anniversary

Taken this last August 09 with Reid