• "I wonder why God kept me here so long? she often asked.
• Could it be to tell others what she observed these years past?
• After all, how many have seen what Mom has seen?
• From horses to autos to planes that fly
• to men traversing the moon in the sky.
• From no phones to telephones to cells;
• to indoor plumbing from outside wells.
• From wood-burning stoves to electricity in droves;
• to penicillins and amoxicillins
• that kill germs, once villains.
• From ending war with atomic blasts
• to the downing of skyscrapers by terrorists.
• From praying in school
• to no-mention-of-God is the rule.
• From adding by hand to computers that do it with ease.
• From listening to radios to watching color TVs.
• To see how far technology us took,
• from snail-mail to e-mail and now, Facebook.