With Laughter and Tears

By Rebecca Jane Clinton

This book of poetry will take you through laughter and tears, life and remembering yesterday. Anyone who reads this book will remember thoughts you have remembered for years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468561203

Rebecca Jane Clinton

I have loved to read books for many years and love to write. I love historical information and am on the City of Mason Historical Commission. My passion is Dog Training, Therapy Work and being there for my friends. I live in Mason, MI and graduated from Mason High School in 1968, attended Lansing Community College. Mason is the county seat of Ingham County and my father was Dr. George R. Clinton who help found the Hospital in Mason. My father taught me how to love the outdoors and my mother taught me how to appreciate everything that the good lord has given us.

Book preview

Chapter 1

THE LAUGHTER

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A Time For Playing

I remember a time when I was small,

and smile remembering the happy times I had

playing up north at our cabin. I can still

picture it in my mind as if it were yesterday.

I close my eyes and I’m transported back

there again to our little cabin in the woods.

The happiness I felt being so free,

without a care in the world,

and enjoying all that nature had to give.

The woods seemed endless

and we would walk for hours on the old dirt trails

or just make our own path.

Sometimes I’d play with my brothers and sisters

or just enjoy natures beauty of all by myself.

We would climb trees, play