Bye, Mom.

[Figs]

I am so very, very sorry for the loss of your Mom, Sarah. And I am very grateful for your Mom. She is the person that gave all of us here the gift of being able to read your writing and have the benefit of your artists eye.

The waves of grief don't knock me over and pin me down for long periods of time anymore. And life still has wonderful moments. But it is bittersweet because I can't share them with my Mom. Both Den and I are thinking of you and Rick.

Kathy

[Rascal403]

Sarah, so very sorry to hear about your Mom. Travis and I are sending warm thoughts your way. You have written an incredibly beautiful tribute.

[sampati]

Sarah, I am so so sorry for your loss. When I lost my Mother she was under Hospice care and they gave me a booklet on death and dying. I would like to share a passage from that book with you as it gave me some sort of peace when she passed:

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!"

"Gone where?"

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: "Here she comes!"

And that is dying.
Written for Hospice by Henry Van Dyke

[CANTIM]

So sorry to hear of the passing of your Mom ! Great that you were able to spend some time with her.

Tim & Carrol

[beebs]

Sarah and Rick, Mary and I have sympathy for you in the passing of your mother. May a higher power give you strength and understanding.
Thanks
Mary and Bernie

[GeckoS]

Your writing celebrates your mom's life. I'm glad that you got to join your family for her passing. She will always be with you.

[Gloria_]

Not maniacs - hyenas carry on, sometimes wailing at life, but ultimately laughing irreverently.

Her fire lives on in you Sweetie.

Thankyou Esther.