You can't help but speak with beauty, can you?

She taught all of us a lot: a lot of songs, a lot about nature, a lot about water sports, and a lot about love. Many of us did not learn her lessons well though. She became a laughing stock eventually. Several in the family were horrible to her, even though she was the most loyal person in our lives. Lots of battles between my parents and her. My mother and she grew up on the lake property, both motherless and/or abandoned.