Gingko trees have a special significance in our family. It all began probably 16 years ago when my brother and sister in law gave my mother and father a gift of a picture for some occasion. The occasion isn't important. What is important is the picture and the frame. It was a picture of my brother's daughter when she was about 18 months old. (She's almost 17 now.) She was sitting on my father's lap and he was reading to her. The frame came to be even more important because embedded in the glass all around the frame were gingko leaves.

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PERSPECTIVE

By: Sillylilly

Perspective is defined by Dictionary.com "as the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc, in having a meaningful relationship." They also define Perspective as "A visible scene, esp. one extending to a distance;"

I begin each day the same, rising out of bed, slipping on a robe, and pouring hot coffee into the same mug, to finally reach the back porch and stare out into the blue abyss otherwise known as sky. I only then begin to wake up slowly with each sip. There are things that happen to each of

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