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The Merry Go Roller Coaster Round

Audio Recordings / tagged Birth, Circle of Life, Death, Dying, Living / July 2, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The price you pay for getting on this ride is having to get off Still want a ticket
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Grandparents on Trains

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Circle of Life, Continuity, Death, Heritage, Life / July 1, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Clickety clack along the track on a trip we're on together Some get on, some get off the train goes on forever
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Learning from Grandparents

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Education, Garden, Inspiration / June 30, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
From my Swiss grandfather who dreamed and grew a prairie Eden combining Europe and Hy-Brasil I learned the impossible is possible From my English grandmother I learned that niceness is very nice but you can leave feeling empty except for cookies and milk From my father's mother and my mother's father I learned that early death is a form of theft
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Grandpa and Hilda and the Snake

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships, Travel / tagged Fate, Marriage / June 29, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Grandpa’s Upstairs Porch

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Siblings / June 28, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The only scenery was sky the only light was lightning Five of us sibled summer nights blanketed against the cooling air Watching storms from forever away til they rained us to our beds
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Grandfather’s Pipe

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia / tagged Connections, Remembrance / June 27, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Long after he had died I used to smoke my grandfather's pipe Not really one of his old pipes but a knobby meerschaum that I bought probably because it reminded me of him the sweetness of his tobacco and his being At least it reminds me of them now Or was it him smoking it and me
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Grandfather’s Moustache

Audio Recordings, Family, Travel / tagged Hair, Scent, Smells / June 26, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The moustaches of my grandfather and Carl Jung (Twins separated at birth) have lives of their own Jung's stays in Switzerland combing the unconscious My grandfather's travels to Brazil and to Canada gathers rainforest moisture, dirty thirties dirt and remnants of strong cheese and pipe smoke (Carl's certainly contains some of that too) When grandfather sneezes, I get to share it all
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Things Dad Didn’t Have to Do

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Modern Life, Technology / June 25, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Image thanks to Bessi at Pixabay

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Father’s Poem

Audio Recordings, Family, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Care, Comfort, Death, Grief, Loss, Nurturing / June 24, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
My father's poems did not come down to us on paper He was eight years old when his mother died his youngest brother not yet three They say he adopted the care of the sweet sad child and told him a story each night Night after night after night new stories he made up each night And he would gather him up in the story and hold him there until he slept
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Farm Dog

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Death, Dogs, Farewell, Goodbye, Love, pets, Rules / June 23, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
My dad doesn't allow pets in the house they weren't allowed in on the farm where he grew up either Once, when he was eight the dog came up the stairs down the hall to the room on the right where his young mother lay dying Laid his head for a moment on her lap and went out again
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  1. Sandi Hebley on Eagle Bone WhistleJuly 6, 2026

    Beautiful!!

  2. Sandi Hebley on The Merry Go Roller Coaster RoundJuly 2, 2026

    *Sigh!*

  3. Anonymous on The Merry Go Roller Coaster RoundJuly 2, 2026

    Yes, those rides did end too soon!

  4. Sandi Hebley on Learning from GrandparentsJune 30, 2026

    🤗

  5. Sandi Hebley on Grandpa and Hilda and the SnakeJune 29, 2026

    Ahhh. The arc of true love!

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