Gathering Thoughts

We are the mirrors that reflect

The kind of adults our children will be

We are the finished models

The patterns of life before them to see.

from "We Are the Patterns"

A lifelong writer, Edith R. Malbon was invited to join a Boston group of poets before she turned twenty years old. This would prove to be a literary highlight in her life, as she soon dedicated herself to family life with her husband and four children.

However, Edith never stopped writing. Even as she tended to life in her small, rural Massachusetts town, she channeled her deepest thoughts and musings on Christianity, nature, her declining health, and the little treasures of everyday life into her poetry and prose.

Out of these many decades of writing comes Gathering Thoughts: Love, Despair, and Hopes of a New England Homemaker, an inspiring collection of work compiled by her son, Craig.

Even as Edith confronts some of the more painful moments of her life, including a breast cancer diagnosis and the inevitable familial regrets, she never stops believing in the goodness of others-a trait directly attributable to her acceptance of Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior.