Friday, April 29, 2005

Frances Pearlman: I'm thankful for my good health, I like to sing to myself & I remember her face


I'm thankful for my good health
and for my peace of mind.
That’s important. I have love
from the family that’s worth everything.
I couldn’t have gotten along without them.
Some have passed away: 3 boys & a girl.
But that’s the way it is. Amen.

—Frances Pearlman


I would wish for good health
I would wish for peace of mind
I would wish for the family to be together
to just get along with life
I would wish for good hearing
but it will never happen in this life
so I like to sing to myself.

—Frances Pearlman




I remember her face
—dedicated to Ida Slater Peralman


I remember way the family
used to light the candles
we used to sing prayers
I was very young
I was born in New England
It's hard not to think about my mother
passing away soon after—
that's why I lost memory of it.
because I lost my mother
She was so young and so beautiful
She had such life in her
She had six children
I remember her face
She had a gray eye, not blue
I was too young to remember
they used to light candles
after she passed away, so young,
so beautiful.

—Frances Pearlman

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