Stash A Sunbeam

What do you do for the dark days when the clouds hide the sun?  Can you take a handful of golden light and put it in a jar in your refrigerator like turkey leftovers or the remains of your best friend's birthday cake?  If you could, could you distil the essence of sunlight and mix it with holy water to repel supernatural beings that prey in the night?  What if you could do the same with art which brings light to your days? Here are some lovely works to remember--I hope you'll enjoy these fine artists' galleries artists, too!  Today's music was the name inspiration of this feature, so here's wishing you a Pocket Full of Sunshine, all week long!  Love in Christ always, -Debra    
   <da:thumb id="680758090"/>         a town i don't want to call mineon the right of the turquoise green sign
that welcomes you to columbia,
there are two gas stations and a church.
on the left side, there’s a morgue.
when i was five years old, my father pulled over
and stopped on the side of the road while black car
after black car passed us, going the other way.
“did we know them?” i asked.
“no,” he said, putting the car in drive. “but someone did.”
at seven, mr. jimmy down at the ice cream shop
let me have free samples of all the new flavors he made
before he put them out to the public.
a favor, he called it, for his little henry.
(years later i would realize that my mother
brought henry into the world.
i would realize my mother brought most everyone
in that town under the age of twenty
into the world, and she never regretted it
even if some of them became gang members, murderers, victims, and
little henry’s leg was crippled in a four-wheeler accident)
i would stand in line during church communion
and a