Contents
The Mill Grinds Fine

Childhood
We Had Dick
Verena Graber Conrad (1846-1930)
Living Toward Sunday
After Church
The Second Chocolate
Easter Finery Was Verboten
Pride
Remember Who You Are
The Choice
School Was Important
Mother Read To Us
Our Watkins Man
What Did Mother Fear?
Mother Fed Tramps
What Did the Preacher Say?
Lost Stories

Parents
The Mystery of Ancestors
Mother Was Generous
Mother Found a Way
Mother Was Strong
The Topic
Mother and Norman Vincent Peale
Our Mother The Writer
Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Sleet…
Sunsets
Mother and the Car
Mother’s Wool Comforters
Waiting For Summer
Our Family Did Not Burn Corn
Shared Loneliness
The Brown Suit
September 28
The Loser at the County Fair
Dream 2005

Gardens
Good Work
The Forager
Can We Share a Garden?
The Bouquets
Remembering
I Need a Letter From Home
Simone Barbadillo’s Garden
A Bitter End
Our Summer Pheasant
Calendar Garden
Winter’s Way

Remembered
The Two Cent Copper Coin
The Schoolhouse Walk
Miss Coney
Rayma Rawson
Memory
The Flamboyant Tree
Going Home
Quaker Meeting
The Happy Hour
The Bird Nest
The Night Blooming Cereus
The Gift
Carver School—Room 37
On The Birth Of Granddaughter Greta
Rejoice and Be Glad (for Elaine and Harold)
Two Greyhounds In New York City
The Trains Of My Life
Counted Treasures Remain
The Particulars of My Life

Reflections
Waiting for a Poem
Hymn To The Sun
He Finds His Poem
Liberation
The Little Grapes
October 28
The Happy Family
He Cried, Too (A Friend’s Story)
Keys
Moving
Waiting For Tomorrow In Assisted Living
Who Will Sing the Songs?
Transformation Mennonites USA Portent
Questions
Portent

Ed
The Wedding Day
August 12, 1944
Our Anniversaries
2003
The Journey
The Killdeer
The Sorrows
Tears
The Giving Away
Our Gardens
Resurrection

Mortality
Instructions to Adam and Eve
They Also Lived
Missing In Action
Which Shade of Black?
Emily’s Secret
The Leavetaking
Summer Cannot Be Stayed
Gathered Home
Senescence
Old Age
Called Home

The Poet