*Guiding Young Ladies Into Womanhood
Rosemary Prather, Executive Director for the Nellie Prather Foundation speaks about the start and mission of the foundation.
KEEPSAKES
a poem by: Nellie Prather
As I stand on the threshold of a different world,
I cherish the universe we built together.
I remember us through my keepsakes of you and me.
The box of our memories is immense.
I stand tip-toe atop the summit
of the mountain of our aspirations-
Just to peek inside.
I rummage through reminders of our past.
Songs we sang leap from the box
And tickle my ears.
Laughter seeps through the crevices.
Surrounds me and warms my skin.
Meanwhile tears fall like cold, broken glass,
from a hole in the cardboard bottom.
Communal prayers hold the
tattered box together.
I keep the souvenirs,
Of the advice you offered (and I ignored)
Of the jokes I told (you said werent funny),
Of the obstacles we surmounted,
While hand in hand in hand
For me, these prove more tangible
Than the motionless images of photographs
Or the idle words of letters.
As I plan tomorrow, I celebrate our yesterday.
Til we meet again,
I remember us through keepsakes of you and me.
Nellie Prather
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Program Director, Claire Thornton-Poke discussing the meaning of the Butterfly Symbol
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