Alaska week

home from a week’s cruise

with ten of the family

so seldom together

Alaska may never

heard such laughter

and joyful catching-up

Read & Ring

Bells of the Cascades Read & Ring

dashing through much handbell music

to get the tone and flavor

in case we would like our bell choir

to learn to play it under the direction

of Matthew Compton was fun

even to this bumbling slow reader

playing the handbells has become

a learning to be an integral part

of a whole, in this case,

a note or two in a beautiful instrument

Bells of the Cascades’ READ & RING