Tears here too. Lovely newsletter. I had to stop half way through to dry up a bit and get a hug from Jonne. Then I grinned when reading how much she enjoyed travelling and dance and of her very great love for all children. A life very well done in my opinion. We should all be so blessed to have a sound assessment taken at the end and find we were not lacking. I applaud her zeal for life.
Brings this quote to my mind.
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
Addisyn Walker
I too lost someone quite recently. My dear brother Brian. It takes time but eventually a smile will creep into the tears and lighten the load a tad.
Rob, get out your travelling shoes and go and visit with your Mum!
Cindy and Pevangel, I wish for you both to be soothed by warm memories of your missing loved ones. I am sure they were both delightful women who made a deep impression on those whom they encountered.
As for me, I will look back on Brian in kindness. Perhaps his last few years were not quite so well done as he struggled with many human frailties, alcoholism being just one. But in the end those things do not seem to matter much and any bad memories are dwarfed by the very fond ones he left us.
Maybe that is the definition of a life well done afterall.
cynthial this is so sweet my Mom was a wonderful woman
she overcame many hardships like 1 is that when she was born
on both hands she only had fingers out to the knuckles but
she was a mean typyst she worried that her children or Grandkids
would be born with that defect not because of the teasing etc
but because thats how Grandma's are
she was to move in with us an was adding on to my house
we went from a 49k home to 179K all from her adding on
that is neither here nor there but she never got into the
addition she couldnt hang on
But Every room we look in we see Mom an yes we smile
she passed in 2001 an yes I still hav e tears
tears of Joy an tears of sorrow
I would give anything to have her back but
not possible so we look at it this way
she is in a better place no pain with family
an one day I hope not to soon I will be with her again
again Thanks I am rambling
Cindy