Memories Lost and Found

By Tommy Bodford

A collection of poems/stories describing how memories can become dreams and then memories. Are some memories just rearranged dreams?

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 31, 2024
• ISBN: 9798350937176

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Memories, Lost and Found

©2023, Tommy Bodford

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ISBN: 979-8-35093-716-9

ISBN eBook: 979-8-35093-717-6

To Julie Ann Bodford,

my anchor and guiding light for forty-five years.

Your unwavering love and support have been my strength and inspiration.

Here’s to our journey together.

Introduction

Authoring these poems helped me deal with the grief of losing my wife, Julie. The exercise helped me engage my thoughts with things related and not related to the grief. The goal was to make the grief more manageable, not go away.

Hopefully, a side effect will be that future friends and relatives will be able to read and know more about this time. Most importantly, will want to know more about Julie and who she was.

No doubt, the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson had Julie in mind when he authored the following

in the 1800s.

What Is Success

--- by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people and

The affection of children;

To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure

The betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;