My mother's birthday will be in a few days and I am thinking of the years we spent together. I know I have adapted her habit because my children keeps reminding of things I say and thing I do. I loved to hear my mother sang hymns on Sundays as she stood before the stove cooking our Sunday meal. There was “Beulah Land” and “We have an anchor”. Two songs that still resonate with me today. I found the lyrics for Beulah Land and now realize why I loved to hear her sing it. It touches my heart when I think of her. Will I see her again some day? Who knows!

I will make it the opening song for her site. There is also a video I've dedicated to her in the Gallery menu.

Ena Myers first of two daughters of Elspeth Phillips and Kenneth Myers was born February 12, 1910 in Layou, ST. Vincent and the Grenadines. The other daughter was Aggie. Mammy, my grandmother had 3 other children: Baby, a boy (known as a prodigal son) and Maggie. 
My mother had a very difficult time growing up in a slave community, not long after slavery was abolished sometime in the middle 1800. Her grandmother had three children: A son Newton Anderson who migrated to the US, my grandmother and a younger daughter Mildred John who migrated to Trinidad and Tobago. My grandmother never left the shores of SVG.
I came to realize that my grandmother had a hard time and her children were given out at an early age to other families. Mother often mentioned that she complained to her mother that the people kept her out of school. She never made it pass Class 2, which in those days was almost at the very bottom of the ladder of learning.
She, however made sure her children went to school with little or no books to help improve their education in primary school. There was one exception - Rudolph her first son was brilliant and won a scholarship to attend The Boy's Grammar School in Kingstown (a famous secondary school) in those days.
I often said my mother broke the mold after Rudolph because no other child had the talent, ability to learn without book. Rudolph was spectacular and out-class all the other students in Layou Government School.
I became aware of this one day in NYC, when a school mate who was the son of the head teacher in Layou said, "I hated this “blabla” (referring to Rudolph) growing up in school". I was curious and asked why. He said his father flogged him badly because he operated way below Rudolph's standard. Rudolph graduated and started his first job as the clerk to a judge.
One year after I was born my mother and father got married. I lived with my mother until I migrated to Canada. It was very difficult leaving mother alone and it took its toll on both of us. It was very hard accepting her passing in December 1985, several years after my father has passed away.
I do miss my mother and will always remember her. As adults my brother Rudolph and I would sit in the backyard of his home in Brooklyn and cry (bawl) when we talked about our mother and our beloved sister Clorethe. Now they are all gone and I miss them and love them dearly.

My mother's birthday will be in a few days and I am thinking of the years we spent together. I know I have adapted her habit. I loved to hear my mother sing hymns on Sundays as she stood before the stove cooking our Sunday meal. There was “Beulah Land” and “We have an anchor”. Two songs that still resonate with me today. I found the lyrics for Beulah Land and now realize why I loved to hear her sing it.

I will make it the opening song for her site.