Post Number Twenty-Eight

Limerick Therapy

Early in the keeping of this journal I wrote about a series of limericks that members of our family had composed over the years, and I wrote about inviting a kind of limerick duel as a means of breaking the stress of the situation.  Last night we were invited to a dinner party hosted by a wonderful couple in our church.  The purpose of the party was to celebrate the conclusion of Terry's cancer treatments.  Guests were instructed to bring silly gifts for Terry to mark the occasion.  Not wanting to be without a gift I decided to return to limerick writing.  I composed three limericks and printed them out on certificate paper and then framed the certificates so that Terry can hang them for display.  It was great fun.  We laughed liked we have not laughed in months. It really felt like we had re-entered a time of normalcy. It is amazing how something as trivial and inconsequential as a limerick can work as a medium of healing.  One of the limericks appears above as it was printed out for Terry.  The text of the other two limericks follows: