Tag: Friendship

Family, Inspiration

A Year of the Best Christmas Gifts

Mona Alvarado Frazier
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

 

Reflecting on the past year, I realized that I’ve already received the best Christmas gifts:

  1. The gift of life. It’s my 10 year anniversary being cancer free.
  2. The gift of having my mother on this earth for another year.
  3. The gift of family. We talk, laugh and enjoy each others company.
  4. The gift of friends who know you at your best & worst and still love you.
  5. The gift of second and third chances.
  6. The gift of grace, mercy, and forgiveness.
  7. The gift of travel to Denver, New Mexico, and New York & meeting new people.
  8. The gift of Netflix & Hulu especially for Longmire, The Mindy Project, Oh My Venus, and Spanish telenovelas.
  9. The gift of having an awesome writing group–buddies for seven years.
  10. The gift of discovering new blogs, writers, books, and authors.

What have you already received this year?

 

Encouragement, poetry

After the Rain – Poem

Mona Alvarado Frazier
Sunset, After the Rain-by DIFrazier
Sunset in So Cal-photo by DIFrazier

 

The entrance to heaven

revealed itself

in my backyard.

After the rain

a sentinel of palms

led the way.

An underbelly of 

orange pink yellow

beneath ashes of clouds

a bird of paradise

hopeful in its call

to lift my head

look up

 to an emerging blue sky.

The sunset reminded me there are the inevitable endings, but in the ‘letting go’ there are also beginnings.

This poem is dedicated to Michele Serros and all my friends I’ve lost throughout the years.

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