From the Shelf

Taken from a shelf in the spare bedroom. The pink Barbie scrapbook that contains the treasured awards, recognitions, and homemade cards crafted from innocence and love, hand written notes and earliest known emails, given to and collected by the two girls’ parents from time of birth through university years. Recording educational progress and religious recognition. Photo albums, and binders of precious photographs of these girls and their family and friends. Grandparents long since gone, aunts and uncles. cousins and classmates. Neglected awards speaking as witnesses to their individual excellence as students. Glean the memories from the forsaken objects from a time when their old man was called daddy, before the items are placed away in the darken attic, perhaps not to be reviewed again until daddy is with friend Jesus.