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THE FAMILY OF BESSIE EDNA BROWN & THOMAS MONNIE WOODS |
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Pearls of wisdom which Mama had jotted down on scraps of
paper: It isn't the thing you do it's the thing you leave undone,
which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting of the
sun! The tender word forgotten, the letter you did not write, The flowers you might have sent, are your haunting ghosts
tonight! Monday's child is fair of face. Tuesday's child is full of grace. Wednesday's child is full of woe Thursday's child has far to go. Friday's child is loving and giving. Saturday's child must work for a living. Sunday's child is fair and wise and good and gay. The heart makes a record of each shining moment and plays
it back all through the years. Our yesterdays are golden, give us the courage to face our
tomorrows! *************************************** The following sent to me by sister Monnie Woods Jones. The tender word forgotten, the letter you did not write, The flowers you might have sent, are your haunting ghosts tonight! What I remember Mama saying......... Time oh time Turn back in your flight And make me a child Just for tonight. Mama didn't know the
source of these lines, but thanks to the Internet it is easy to find that information these days. (See below) -------------------------------------------------------------------- If someone complained
about something (clothes - shoes -
or hair) Mama would smile and say, "It wouldn't be noticed
on a galloping horse." No one ever reminded
Mama that we were seldom on a galloping horse. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Then there was the
time when Mama was dressing me for school and she
had patched my dress. I told her that I didn't want
to wear a patched dress to school. Mama said "It is no disgrace to wear a patched dress to school,
the disgrace would be if the patch were dirty." -------------------------------------------------------------------- Another one that would
take the wind out of anyone’s sails.. "Oh would the power
the giftie give us... to see ourselves as
others see us.” By Scottish poet Robert Burns -------------------------------------------------------------------- If wishes were horses
all beggars would ride. --------------------------------------------------------------------
Tombstones Harold Dove "Noblest Come too soon"
John Edward Dove "His virtues formed the monument in his memory." Casandre Goodson
"Think what a woman
should be and she was that"
Ann "She died as she lived
trusting in God." Harold Dove was the
son of Luther Dove and was Mama's first cousin. John Edward Dove was
Mama's grandfather on her mother’s
side. Casandre Goodson was
Mama's grandmother and the first wife
of John Edward Dove. Ann Dixon Walworth
Dove was Mama's Step Grandmother (the second
wife of John Edward Dove) and was also
Mama's great Aunt on her daddy’s side
(she was the sister of Mama's other grandmother, Mariam
Narcissa Dixon Brown, the wife of James Willis
Brown). ******************************************************* Backward, flow backward,
O tide of the years! I am so weary of toil
and of tears,-- Toil without recompense,
tears all in vain! Take them, and give
me my childhood again! Backward, turn backward,
O Time, in your flight! Make me a child again,
just for to-night! Elizabeth Akers Allen.
1832- ----. ********************************************************
An Axe to Grind (Someone who has a hidden motive.This
phrase is said to have originated from Benjamin Franklin who told a story about a devious man who asked how a grinding wheel
worked. He ended up walking away with his axe sharpened free of charge)
A bad apple spoils the whole barrel (one corrupt person
can cause all the others to go bad if you don't remove the bad one)
At sea (lost or not understanding something)
Bad Egg (Someone who was not a good person) Barking at a knot (meaning that your efforts were as useless as a dog barking at a knot.) Barking
up the wrong tree (meaning that you were after the wrong person or thing)
Been
through the mill (had a rough time of it) Between
hay and grass (Not a child or an adult) Calaboose
(a jail) Cattywampus
(Something that sits crooked such as a piece of furniture sitting at an angle) Pretty
is as pretty does (your actions are more important than your looks) Too many cooks spoil the broth (to many people
involved to do the thing right) Too many irons in the fire (to be involved in too many
things)
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