Stuff from my mama

So you guys may not know her, but my mom is a pretty cool lady.
I like her a lot :)
She has pretty great taste in stuff and is good about passing it along to people that she thinks will appreciate it.
In that spirit, today I'd like to share 2 of her recent finds.

She recently went on a trip to Indianapolis for work stuff.  At the airport she said there were these cool modern art stained glass windows and one of them had this poem.  She forwarded it to me (she knows I hate all that 2 become 1 crap) and I think it's just lovely.
So now I'm going to share it with you.

CELEBRATIONby Mari Evans

I will bring you a whole person

and you will bring me a whole person

and we will have us twice as much

of love and everything

I be bringing a whole heart

and while it do have nicks and

dents and scars,

that only make me lay it down

more careful-like

An’ you be bringing a whole heart

a little chipped and rusty an’

sometime skip a beat but

still an’ all you bringing polish too

and look like you intend

to make it shine

And we be bringing, each of us

the music of our selves to wrap

the other in

Forgiving clarities

soft as a choir’s last

lingering note our

personal blend

I will bring you someone whole

and you will bring me someone whole

and we be twice as strong

and we be twice as sure

and we will have us twice as much

of love

and everything

**selection taken from A DARK AND SPLENDID MASS
Poems by Mari Evans 1992

Read More: http://www.newbeginningsittakescouragetochange.org/2008/12/i-will-bring-you-whole-person.html

The other thing is a video she posted to Facebook yesterday.  I firmly believe in it's message and lament the fact that kids today seem to be less and less able to communicate clearly and in a well-spoken manner.  Our speech has power and text speak does not do it justice.

Amen!

What good stuff has someone shared with you lately?