Family for March16 challenge

Posted on March 15, 2011 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

My family is what I am,
past, present and future;
my pride, my concern
my comfort and my legacy.

This prompt for some reason I don’t understand, has been well nigh impossible to write. Easy to be flippant, hard to tell it like it is.

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10 Responses to Family for March16 challenge

therummaker says:

March 17, 2011 at 07:31

very well done 🙂

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Pat Cegan says:

March 17, 2011 at 01:04

I love your honesty about this being a challenging prompt. But you did it well. One of my favorite quotes is from Ram Dass who said, “If you want to know how spiritually advanced you are, go spend a week with your family!” 🙂 They are complex relationships for sure. Thanks for your poem! hugs, pat

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trisha says:

March 16, 2011 at 16:57

your family is lucky to have you in their life.

trisha
http://sharmishthabasu.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/family/

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Tilly Bud says:

March 16, 2011 at 13:34

I read this about six times. Love it.

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Becca Givens says:

March 16, 2011 at 07:14

Family – can be one you are born into … or one you choose! It can be ancestors, or the future … in our household it includes – 2 humans and a total of a dozen 4-legged fur-children! 🙂 ~~ becca

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earlybird says:

March 16, 2011 at 07:09

Well done, Viv. I’ve given up on this prompt. I feared it might have been as disillusioned as yesterday’s on Childhood. For my wider family, that is. My two children are just the best!

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Mike Patrick says:

March 16, 2011 at 06:18

A lovely response to a difficult prompt.

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cloakedmonk says:

March 16, 2011 at 05:13

Theologically, we call it the “cloud of witnesses.” All that have gone before, paving the way. I love my cloud! And I see you love yours.

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honeyhaiku says:

March 16, 2011 at 02:29

I found that to be true myself of this prompt, funny that this one was a head scratcher. Good work!

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Paulo Guimaraes says:

March 15, 2011 at 23:32

A family is what it is, an everchanging example of group dynamics. Have to give that one some extra thought as well.

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