The Baby's Cross, The Baby's Cross by C. Gale Perkins
Welcome to my web-page. My name is C. Gale Perkins and I am the author of The Baby's Cross .
My mother wrote a poem for me when I was three years old. We were in different hospitals at the same time and both
of us had tuberculosis . My mom died a year later at the age of twenty-four when I was
four years old. She had tuberculosis of the lungs and I had tuberculosis of the bones.
My mother,Marjorie Logan-Wilson, wrote many other poems but this is the poem that I want to share with the
world at this time. I have received a lot of comfort from this poem and I have honored it by making it the title of my
book.
I have put the cover of my book on this page to add more to the poem. I am the little girl laying in the
crib facing my aunt Eunice. This photo was taken on my third birthday.
I would have a visitor each month; a tall thin woman, she was my Aunty Eunice, my Mother’s sister.
I asked her where my mother was and she said, “She is very sick”.Aunty
Eunice said that she would visit my mother following her visits with me and would tell her all about me.She told me I had Mom’s big brown eyes and her sweet singing voice.She was like a messengerwho would bring good news back and forth.I asked her if she would bring Mom someday when she got better. She promised
she would. She would give me a big hug and when she would leave, I would cry.I
missed her when she left - she was so nice and smelled so good and would make me laugh, but most of all it was her hugs. I
could not feel them too much on top of the plaster but I knew they would feel good.
The answer to all the questions that were in my mind were somewhat answered in the poem which is the title
of my book, “The Baby’s Cross,” written by my Mom. The poem was written after one of the visits to me and
then to my Mom, from Aunty Eunice, who had brought the message to her along with the picture.
THE BABY’S CROSS
Her big brown eyes twinkle roguishly. (As they use to when she chased her cat.) Oh dear, why did
I think of that?
She asked for him today and wondered, “Did her Saunders miss her while she was away?”
The kitten died but she never knew The sorrows of childhood should be so few.
Yet-the cast extends from her sturdy shoulders to her knees And, when one thinks of these, and many
other things, How joyously she laughs, how sweet she sings.
Then when her little story of her wants are done, She whispers, earnestly, “some day I will run
and run, So far that nobody can catch me again".
With a sigh, your heavy heart whispers back-AMEN
By Marjorie-Logan-Willsonto Gale 11/16/36 In
memory of Eunice’s visit to My Darling Gale
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Mother, wife and
poet, Marjorie Logan Willson’s life, cut short tragically in 1938, at the age of 24, during the tuberculosis epidemic
that swept through the country.
Among
the gifts condensed into this young life was that of notable insights realized far beyond her actual years, in conjunction
with the rare ability to express that keen sight in an ethereal cadence of distinctive poetry, retaining words and implications
as relevant today as when they were penned in the 1930s.
The poetry of Marjorie Logan Willson preserved through the years by her two daughters, and organized, presented
and published by daughter, C. Gale Perkins, author of The Baby’s Cross, who
now shares a portion of her mother’s introspective reflections on various topics, such as motherhood, love, nature,
spirituality and faith, friendship, loss and more.
With depth, brilliance, beauty, feeling, wit, understanding, perception, pith and inspiration, Transcending Time is a remarkable legacy of timeless poetic treasures.
Here is a video I found on YouTube that is part of "On The Lake"
The TB Blues
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On
The Lake: Life and Love in Distant Place
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Below is a video of a Book signing
C. Gale Perkins did at Stonehedge.
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Below is a longer Video (1hr 15min) that is embedded on this website from www.Motionbox.com .
This is a video of a book signing C.Gale Perkins did at the Northern Essex Community
College.
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Below is a video slide show that C. Gale Perkins did to share the many photo's she has during
the time she was a patient for 12 years at the Lakeville State Sanitorium when she was between age 3 and 15.
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Below are comments and Keywords made by the 15 Reviewers who have written a review on "The Baby's
Cross". C. Gale Perkins is proud of these comments and appreciates each and everyone of them.
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Excellent Reading,Heart warming,
Interesting Story,Love for a Mother,well written,true story,story of courage, faith
and perseverance despite all obstacles,a great lesson in here on the importance of forgiveness,This really is a ten star book,
a very inspirational, informative, and interesting book,this book is suitable for all ages,a wonderful
story and a great read, the most inspiring story I have ever read, the story was compelling and keeps your interest right
to the end, what an amazing person she must be, this is one book I don't want to share, I know I will want to re-read
it from time to time, Incredible True Story,this story was so riveting that I read it from cover to cover
in one sitting, the incredible revelation at the end of the story wrenched my soul, read Gale's story and draw courage, Gale
had endured many surgeries, scary nights, and losses of loved ones, C. Gale Perkins, shared her life story with me as if she
was really holding a conversation with me, this is the type of book I think Oprah would enjoy reading, "The Baby's Cross"
is an enjoyable book to read, I spent 5 months in the Lakeville Sanatorium in 1953 in the polio ward. I found Gale's
book well written and really admired her, I applaud Gale for being able to make the reader feel so many emotions, My husband
Chester, also read the book and his comment was,"Masterful", from the first page of this amazing autobiography I was
hooked and I couldn't put it down, the highest compliment I can give Gale is the fact that my husband chose reading
her book over watching the football game, The Baby's Cross is a deeply moving and revealing book about an extraordinary
brave and intelligent child.
