It's Latin to Me!!

Diana was the Goddess of fertility, of the moon, as well as the patron Goddess of wild beasts. Her sacred animal being the deer.

Way back in 1955 ~ first year of high school

I was a timid young thing

barely brave enough to sign up for

high school Latin

[Mother said I would enjoy it]

[Daddy told me it would help

in English Comp class]

I believed them ~ what in the world was I thinking?

I should have taken Spanish ~ something useful!

Pleased to report after countless hours spent in the library

sitting at our dining room table long after dinner

propped up in bed late at night

it “clicked” in my young girl brain

I embraced the language ~ mythology

fashion ~ history ~ all of it

when invitations went out announcing

the “Annual Roman Banquet"

"Dress as your Favorite Character"

I remembered Diana ~ it had to be her

designed / stitched my costume / sky blue / artfully draped

created a headpiece / foil covered quarter moon

Guess who won 1^st Place / Best Dressed

Yep ~ that timid young thing

READY FOR SECOND YEAR LATIN ~~ YES !

Once Upon a Scream

 Memory Care Walk, 2004

in eighty-three years

she screamed at me just once:

it had become quite clear

she should no longer drive

i tried taking away her car keys

with tears on her cheeks, face flushed

"I'm the Mother ~ You're the Daughter!!"

my simple solution

move her from Missouri to Florida

and so it came to pass

caring for her my privilege

until she was no more

we were no more