A Book of Dawn Get link Facebook X Pinterest Email Other Apps June 11, 2022 “Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.”― Brian TracyMy sister-in-law, Frankie Flexter, created this beautiful book for our Cynthia Dawn. Get link Facebook X Pinterest Email Other Apps Comments Sherry Blue SkyJune 11, 2022 at 7:20 PMHow beautiful and precious. She shines on every page.ReplyDeleteRepliesReplyAdd commentLoad more... Post a Comment
Confetti of Magic October 11, 2024 We were four souls in a U-Haul watching snowflakes dance across the windshield. Change doesn’t often provide confetti, but on that winter night my husband, two small daughters, and myself were given the gift of magic that glittered us into a bond that could never be broken. With goodbye still stinging our lips we felt like the only ones the moon had forgotten as the truck’s headlights struggled to give us eyes in the blizzard. Out of the crackle of the dashboard radio words sang, “You have to believe we are magic nothin' can stand in our way”. In that moment Oliva Newton John gave us our hope song, our love song, our family song, our forever song. On an icy Missouri road mapped with a journey to Texas “Magic” told us it would keep us whole even when grief would leave us broken. ©Susie Clevenger 2024 Cynthia Dawn took her last breath to the song "Magic" on January 26th, 2022...the magic continues What's Going On? ~ Magic Read more
Sermon From a Photograph December 12, 2024 Today’s sermon is tea too cold to thaw the wind that ruffles a buzzard’s feathers as it stares through my kitchen window daring me to deny mortality. Today’s sermon is the sound of a television in the other room providing sound to fill empty space. Today’s sermon is a sweatshirt that smells like my daughter, gray sleeves helping me feel what I can’t hold. Today’s sermon is a picture on a shelf where she smiles from a photograph urging me to keep my eyes on blue sky. ©Susie Clevenger 2024 What's Going On? ~ Today's Sermon Read more
Beauty Takes Me by the Heart March 13, 2025 The weight of sorrow wraps around my feet as I pace the shifting shadows of Wednesday. I wander the house with my palms open trying to feel your presence in rooms where I heard you laugh. My pacing leads me to the memory of the day you tattooed your wrist with the word “free.” In a brick and glass tattoo shop in Tulsa you inked light from your spirit onto your skin to proclaim your power. Guided to your framed smile beauty takes me by the heart and comforts me with images of you walking in a garden where pain no longer chases you. Filled with a rush of the unexplainable I hear you in my spirit sing, “It is well with my soul.” Tearfully I look toward a window and watch tree limbs pregnant with spring buds brush blue sky with hallelujahs and lift a silent amen. ©Susie Clevenger 2025 What's Going On? ~ Beauty Below is a song Dawn wrote and sang. Touch and Go DawnClev · Touch and Go (original tune by Dawn) Read more
How beautiful and precious. She shines on every page.
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