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
