On January 28th, 2022, my niece D'Mya's 13th birthday,
I received a strange call from the Faulkner County Library. They proceeded to tell me that 2 of my mother's books were there and they wanted to know if I wanted to have them.
I told them that I did. So I went there to retrieve them.
What I found was phenomenal. These books were 2 handwritten books of poetry that she had managed to get stored in the library's catalog. By this time, they had been in the system for nearly 28 years!
The books looked like journals that you would buy from Walmart and they were filled with poetry and pasted pictures of family photos that I had not seen in years!
When I told my mother that I had retrieved those books, she told me that she wrote those books and she dedicated them to the memory of Mother Jesse Anderson and my great-grandmother who we affectionately called " Mama Gert".
I wanted to write about this to remind you all of just how important family artifacts are. Never take anything for granted.
