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FOUR GENERATIONS
There are a few photographs I have from my mother's wedding in 1955.
She is on the right with the girls. And the wedding cake western style.
We are not only descendants, we are also ancestors! It's hard to remember it, but time won't forget to remaind us this fact.
My mother's photo (at the top) was taken in Addis Ababa on March 1969 (Ethiopian calendar). It was 1976, according to our calendar. She died in prison.
More photos at Tree II: Childhood in Addis.
Must be twenty years ago or so!
In the Fall of 1999 she goes to Emma Villard Boarding School, that's how big she is!
They gave birth to six of us, three boys and three girls. All are in the States. In New York, California, Las Vegas and in Alaska. We don't see each other that often. As if we live in different countries on different continents.
She was married to the Crown Prince in her teens, and she divorced him.
The rest of her life she lived like a nun and painted big canvases.
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May God be praised for woman
That gives up all her mind,
A man may find in no man
a friendship of her kind
That covers all he has brought
As with her flesh and bone,
Nor quarrels with a thought
Because it is not her own.
Though pedantry denies,
It's plain the Bible means
That Solomon grew wise
While talking with his queens,
Yet never could, although
They say he counted the grass,
Count all the praises due
When Sheba was his lass,
When she the iron wrought, or
When from the smithy fire
It shuddered in the water:
Harshness of their desire
That made them stretch and yawn,
Pleasure that comes from sleep,
Shudder that made them one.
What else He give or keep
Go grant me - no, not here,
For I am not so bold,
To hope a thing so dear
Now I am growing old,
But when, if the tale's true,
The pestle of the moon
That pounds up all anew
Brings me to birth again -
To find what once I had
And know what once I have known,
Until I am driven mad,
Sleep driven from my bed,
By tenderness and care,
Pity, an aching head,
Gnashing of teeth, despair;
And all because of some one
Perverse creature of chance,
And live like Solomon
That led Sheba a dance.
In the Fall she goes to High School. Sasha plays violin and already takes some college class. (For more on our life in Alaska, please, visit "4X4 Family" Page).
....Arranged by the dying Menelik in 1911 at the age of nineteen Dedjazmatch Tafari was married to weyzero Menen who was the grand-daughter of Negus Mikael of Wello and niece to Yassu, heir to the throne. The Power was a family business and family was a business of power....
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