Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Posted: Nov 18 2005 at 8:31pm | IP Logged Quote Mary G

We had the best day today -- after we put dh on the airplane we came home and listened to a new book mama bought -- Poetry Speaks to Childrenedited by Elise Paschen. She's also done one that is for adults (which makes it sound seedy but it's not ) called Poetry Speaks.

The kids one is delightful with wonderful poems and a CD where 52 of the 95 peoms are read by (mostly) the poets themsleves, but a few others stand in. It's got the Raven read by Basil Rathbone, JRRTolkein reading Frodo's Song in Bree and some others (including Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, etc). My kids loved listening to the poets read their poems (I guess it's better than mom ). One problem with this kids book, there is one poem about f*rting that is just silly, bathroom humor. The upside is that it's on a double page spread so I'm just going to glue those pages together -- another benefit, it's NOT one read by the poet!

Enjoy!

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