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2014-05-13T08:21:59-07:00

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The Day my Brother Triked Away

Last updated on: May 13, 2014 at 8:21 am By Margaret Blair Young

This is yet another guest post by my brother, Dell Blair. His writing is too good for me not to share. I remember the day of his great tricycle adventure. I remember the devastated look on my young mother’s face. I remember some men talking about “dragging the canal.” But Dell remembers it from his unique perspective, and tells about it magnificently. Dell Blair: Mother’s day May 10, 2014 at 6:11pm Mom extended her index finger for me to hold... Read more

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2014-05-11T11:46:47-07:00

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Alsina Brimhall Holbrook: “With Gratitude for the Privilege”

Last updated on: May 11, 2014 at 11:46 am By Margaret Blair Young

These are among the final words written by my great grandmother, Alsina Elizabeth Brimhall Holbrook: Dearest Children, Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren and more— Be true to your faith, live the Gospel and remember the Lord never requires anything of you that He does not prepare a means whereby you can accomplish it. The art of glorious living here and throughout all eternity is within your reach. . . Your needs will be of great concern to us. If we have power... Read more

Post-partum depression

2014-05-08T09:09:58-07:00

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Here am I: Day to Day Miracles

Last updated on: May 8, 2014 at 9:09 am By Margaret Blair Young

I don’t understand how these little miracles happen. I have had some jaw-dropping right time/right place miracles, but more often the little ones—which I might miss if I weren’t committed to noticing them. A couple of months ago, I met a lovely redheaded woman—age 27—in the local gym’s hot tub. Her smile was magnificent. I thanked her for being a redhead, something I say to most redheads because there are too few of us and we need to appreciate one... Read more

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2014-05-04T14:54:28-07:00

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The Innkeeper’s Wife

Last updated on: May 4, 2014 at 2:54 pm By Margaret Blair Young

Luke 10 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, 34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to thehost, and said unto him, Take... Read more

2014-05-02T17:00:57-07:00

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Life, Death, and Miracles

Last updated on: May 2, 2014 at 5:00 pm By Margaret Blair Young

This is a guest post by my brother, Dell Blair. Beneath the haze of an induced coma a glimmer of awareness illuminates a single ray of reality penetrating the heavily medicated fog and compelling my eyelids to part. Through a filter of lashes and desiccated tears an image emerges more dreamlike than real with impressionistic strokes smeared and rippling across the panorama. There are shadows. There are lights. There is a woman with dark hair standing in the threshold of... Read more

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2014-04-04T09:49:05-07:00

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Brother!

Last updated on: April 4, 2014 at 9:49 am By Margaret Blair Young

April 1, 1949: My dad is taking a shorthand class at BYU. His sister, Carolyn, appears at the class door asking him to come out. He hesitates because he’s not yet finished with the assignment. She beckons more urgently. When he steps into the hall, she says, “Bobby, Daddy has died.” They go to Santa Barbara, their hometown. My grandmother has been put on tranquilizers. Grandpa had died of a heart attack. Dad takes care of funeral details and late... Read more

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2014-03-29T07:34:56-07:00

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And then Martha Stewart Called. . .

Last updated on: March 29, 2014 at 7:34 am By Margaret Blair Young

My brother, sixteen years my junior, is one of the funniest people I know. It’s dry wit, and reminds me of my youngest son’s humor. Actually my youngest son is Ben’s doppelganger. Take a look at the photo on the side and compare with this one: Ben was once driving through Island Park, which was full of wild flowers, with an uncle of ours, who said, “I’ll give you a quarter for every flower you can name.” Ben was on... Read more

2014-03-12T14:09:29-07:00

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Elijah Abel’s poem

Last updated on: March 12, 2014 at 2:09 pm By Margaret Blair Young

Several people have asked that I publish this poem, which I wrote as part of I am Jane. The poem is set up by Jane asking Elijah about all the talk she has been hearing of curses, Cain, Ham, etc. She says, “I’ve never felt cursed by God, only loved so deep, seemed my bones might melt.” Elijah replies, “I feel, Sister Jane, that ours is… Not a curse but a gift t’us, The best path we could seek A... Read more

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2014-03-11T07:27:41-07:00

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Sarah Speaks

Last updated on: March 11, 2014 at 7:27 am By Margaret Blair Young

Note: I give my creative writing students an exercise in telling “untold” scripture stories, such as Leah’s or Bathsheba’s, imagining what their version of the story might have been. It is an imaginative experiment. This is my own exercise imagining Sarah. He thought I was sleeping, but I had awakened hours before. I knew his mind. He thought he could predict me. He considered my gasp a sign of naivete, at the time when the stranger said I would bear... Read more

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2014-03-04T11:12:55-07:00

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What does the [Silver] Fox Say?

Last updated on: March 4, 2014 at 11:12 am By Margaret Blair Young

They came to the play. President and Sister Uchtdorf came. What a joyous surprise! Afterwards, President Uchtdorf, LDS apostle, said to me (among other things), “The restoration continues.” I love those words. For those who question the changeable policy of the priesthood restriction by saying, “I thought God never changed,” I suggest Elder Uchtdorf’s words. The restoration continues. God never changes, but who said we were on God’s level? We come to understand principles, to live them, and eventually to... Read more

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