Bloodroot: 100 Dadmations
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Free Preview This is a sample poem from a collection being published under the title: Bloodroot: 100 Dadmations. The poems written by Tim Lewis Rue are sought to capture ‘snapshots’ in time. February 11, 2017 One Genesis 2:24 states, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh,” the ultimate human connection I believe. In the early morning hours on February 11, 2017 I pondered my marriage to my lovely wife Mary Margaret Jago Rue, with Valentine’s Day approaching, and of how she completes my life. In the early summer of 1976 I began to court Mary who became my lively, wedded consort on April 16, 1981, providing symbiotic support, and an empathic trait makes her a good sport. Every human relationship will encounter troubles, often having to deal with each other’s foibles but as an ongoing work in progress it enables surmounting stresses like popping bubbles. Occasionally over the years we did jumpstart our marriage with counseling to impart compromise and appreciation of my sweetheart whom I love even when she does f__t. TR
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About the Book
This compilation of family stories, as poems, is to preserve them from being lost to memory. Bloodroot was the name of a plant displayed in my botany class at West Virginia Wesleyan College. The stem when cut resembles bleeding. In regards to genealogical bloodlines I concluded that the term Bloodroot would be a good title for this collection of mostly family stories. My daughter Beth Ann suggested the title 101 Dadmations for my first book, and the two were combined: Bloodroot: 101 Dadmations. This second book Bloodroot: 100 Dadmations is a companion volume to the first preserving more family stories.
About the Author
Tim Lewis Rue was born August 5, 1954 at Monroe Hospital in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania but raised in Pahaquarry Township, Warren County, above the Delaware Water Gap, on the New Jersey side. At the age of 15 Tim moved to Belvidere, New Jersey; he graduated from Belvidere High School in 1972. He graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. Tim had worked as a laboratory technician and is now retired. Tim married Mary Margaret Jago from Harmony Township, Warren County, New Jersey on April 16, 1981. Tim and Mary moved across the Delaware River and raised three children: Catherine Mary, Elizabeth Ann and Daniel Lewis in Lower Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Tim and Mary currently live in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The author’s interest in history and genealogy led to his first book of family stories with pictures entitled Bloodroot: 101 Dadmations (named by my daughter Beth Ann), and was published in 2009 by AuthorHouse. This book of Bloodroot: 100 Dadmations is a companion volume to the first book having collected additional family stories.