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| My friend Jill is a dedicated worker with Habitat for Humanity, but that doesn't define her. Happy birthday! |
helping families turn vacant lots
into warm homes, building
bridges from community to
citizen.
Big jobs can overtake
a person, though. Dig so
deep into the core it's all you are,
identified with projects,
losing self
within the need, the vision.
Not here.
Not her.
More than just a mission,
more than someone's
title on a letterhead. Woman with
a life and love and laughing with
her friends. Birthday woman,
and she doesn't mind the years
at all. She's lived them well.
(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014
Big jobs can overtake
a person, though. Dig so
deep into the core it's all you are,
identified with projects,
losing self
within the need, the vision.
Not here.
Not her.
More than just a mission,
more than someone's
title on a letterhead. Woman with
a life and love and laughing with
her friends. Birthday woman,
and she doesn't mind the years
at all. She's lived them well.
(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014
Oh Ellen - I'm so honored to have a birthday poem. You can't imagine! I'm awed by your talent and how you see me. Goodness - imagine me speechless! ;:
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