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Saturday, August 5, 2023

For Maxine

Can each of us be present 

in the rising or setting of the sun, 

or the beginning or ending a life?


Only through our memories,

family stories shared

in laughter and tears.


Such an evening was set on

the prairie where wheat fields grew, 

broad blue sky spanned the horizon.


as family, we were each present

to close one circle and

open it to the next generation.


“Family is found…whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, 

what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”

~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising


E Maxine Manning nee Newell
December 19, 1928 - March 10, 2022

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