I imagine
my grandmother
at the age of 3
sailing from Sweden
to another world across the sea
I've no way
of knowing whether
she actually sipped tea from
this delicate cup with the spring violets
I do know she loved beauty
practiced hospitality
and lived kindly
* * *
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers:
for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews 13:2
