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My
Genealogy
(6/26/01) 
Sunsets in
Florida 5/00
Mary &
Friends, Longboat, 5/00
Kent,
Eric, Gillian and Michelle, Longboat, 5/00
Dec '99 photo of our
Grandchildren
My brother Eric family
pictures
Great Britain
9/99
Some Alaska Cruise
shots 6/98
Eric's House
rebuilding 2/98
New Years Eve 1/98
Betsy, children,
grandchildren '98
Xmas '97
Panama Canal Cruise
Dec '97volume 2
Halloween
'97
Telluride vacation
9/97
Anniversary 8/97
Southern Caribbean
Cruise Feb '97
My Sister Betsy &
Family
Found pictures
from Chatham Bars Inn, Cape Cod
Pictures of many of
us on Cape Cod 9/96
Family photo album from
mid '96
Georganne
&Larry's Page
My son, Kent, now works for IGEN. My son Eric is currently working in Denver for an Internet start-up, Hotelnet.com. He has recently become engaged to a Colorado native, Michelle Hovet, who teaches special education. They will be married in the Rocky Mountains on July 1, 2001. My sister, Betsy is a poet. Check out her poetry. Or send your comments to me, Lyman A. Johnson, editor and publisher. Search this site
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 The Silver Cloud on the Thames with Tower Bridge - August 1999
A few of Betsy's recent poems: (You can read more of her poetry here.) Here's my latest, reflective of the mad whirl I am in.
Betsy Bell, April 1997 Spring has sprung
The grass is riz
My heart has went
Where my brain is.
Woe is me!
How happy she
in love again
at almost sixty.
Cheers, Betsy
I thought I'd share the results of a recent assignment from my on-line poetry class. Maybe it'll inspire you to write. The task was to write a poem about myself, 9 lines long, and no use of personal pronouns. Here it is: No confusion here ©1997, Betsy Bell
1 This crone, beautiful in graying hair,
2 shaped by Swedish immigrants,
3 exhausting line of Pilgrim fathers,
4 Great Plains, big sky, grasses and hot earth.
5 Captured by an intellect so big
6 it swept a path across the continents.
7 Infants birthed are birthing now.
8 Alone, ripe, patient,
9 with heart so full of love it holds the Earth itself.
Betsy Bell, March 1997
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