Rosalie Anderson Mixson Writings
By Rosalie Anderson Mixson

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Family

Bear no malice in you heart however much tried
right or wrong, it doesn't matter, cast it all aside.
Never let a grievance spread its poison in your mind.
Life is short-why spoil it with words and thoughts unkind.
You are very luck to have a family of relations and in-laws.
Don't spoil the harmony--by keeping a petty feud
that causes needless pain.  Be the one to make it up
and try to start again.  Malice makes you old and hard
so never let it grow.
Happier, younger you will feel when once you've
let it go, forget the thing that hurt you so.  
Be generous and make a friendly gesture of
goodwill for everyone's sake.

Rosalie Mixson, 1984