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How are you spending the summer solstice?
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: alec716 on June 21, 2006, 09:07:07 pm ---OK, you asked... and for some reason, I feel safe in responding.
I'm reflecting on the fact that it was 5 years ago this morning that a true soulmate of mine finished her 4-year battle with cancer and closed her tortured eyes for the last time as I held her. Not trying to be melodramatic here, just reporting the facts. There was not a dull moment in her 37 years. Mary was one of the world's most passionate, energetic, caring people. She loved her life, her partner and their son, her friends, the needy children in whose lives she worked tirelessly, her pets, and her rugby games. Her last words, slurred when she momentarily and partially stirred from her coma, were "Help me live."
What a gorgeous gift Mary gave me by asking me to walk her last earthbound miles with her ... & darn it all if I didn't get good with the morphine pump in the process! Standing by her side, I faced the loss I feared every day in between her diagnosis and her death and came out stronger on the other side. And since she was too g*ddamn special to be buried in the family plot, we made sure that her ashes reached her shaded church yard, crystalline Alaskan waters, and a sunny patch of the Amazon River. I like to think that the sun hangs in the summer solstice sky just a few moments longer than it used to, since Mary is there to hold it up.
I continue to learn from the lessons of that period of my life. Mary truly changed my life forever, and I am grateful. I feel her energy around me all the time.
We rode it, Mary, as long as we could. I love you.
--- End quote ---
wow. you are one lucky person to have had Mary in your life. and she to have had you. that was a beautiful post. and the solstice sunset will always be more beautiful for your having shared that with us. thank you.
David In Indy:
I will be watching Brokeback Mountain..definately!
But I might try to balance an egg on its' end while I'm watching it! ;)
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: alec716 on June 21, 2006, 09:07:07 pm ---OK, you asked... and for some reason, I feel safe in responding.
I'm reflecting on the fact that it was 5 years ago this morning that a true soulmate of mine finished her 4-year battle with cancer and closed her tortured eyes for the last time as I held her. Not trying to be melodramatic here, just reporting the facts. There was not a dull moment in her 37 years. Mary was one of the world's most passionate, energetic, caring people. She loved her life, her partner and their son, her friends, the needy children in whose lives she worked tirelessly, her pets, and her rugby games. Her last words, slurred when she momentarily and partially stirred from her coma, were "Help me live."
What a gorgeous gift Mary gave me by asking me to walk her last earthbound miles with her ... & darn it all if I didn't get good with the morphine pump in the process! Standing by her side, I faced the loss I feared every day in between her diagnosis and her death and came out stronger on the other side. And since she was too g*ddamn special to be buried in the family plot, we made sure that her ashes reached her shaded church yard, crystalline Alaskan waters, and a sunny patch of the Amazon River. I like to think that the sun hangs in the summer solstice sky just a few moments longer than it used to, since Mary is there to hold it up.
I continue to learn from the lessons of that period of my life. Mary truly changed my life forever, and I am grateful. I feel her energy around me all the time.
We rode it, Mary, as long as we could. I love you.
--- End quote ---
Oh God! Alec. What can I say after reading something like this? That was absolutely beautiful! I'm crying right now.
Thank you for sharing this life journey with us.
Front-Ranger:
Thank you very much Alec for sharing that with us. I would like to exit this world on the summer solstice too. I hope I can be half as courageous as Mary. Right now, I am having a wonderful time as Nature is putting on a spectacular show for me. Lightning, peals of thunder, rainbows, dramatic skies, sunsets, clouds, and rays of sun. And that wonderful smell of ozone. How I love the smell of ozone in the evening. Good night, oh my Brokie brothers and sisters.
vkm91941:
--- Quote from: alec716 on June 21, 2006, 09:07:07 pm ---OK, you asked... and for some reason, I feel safe in responding.
I'm reflecting on the fact that it was 5 years ago this morning that a true soulmate of mine finished her 4-year battle with cancer and closed her tortured eyes for the last time as I held her. Not trying to be melodramatic here, just reporting the facts. There was not a dull moment in her 37 years. Mary was one of the world's most passionate, energetic, caring people. She loved her life, her partner and their son, her friends, the needy children in whose lives she worked tirelessly, her pets, and her rugby games. Her last words, slurred when she momentarily and partially stirred from her coma, were "Help me live."
What a gorgeous gift Mary gave me by asking me to walk her last earthbound miles with her ... & darn it all if I didn't get good with the morphine pump in the process! Standing by her side, I faced the loss I feared every day in between her diagnosis and her death and came out stronger on the other side. And since she was too g*ddamn special to be buried in the family plot, we made sure that her ashes reached her shaded church yard, crystalline Alaskan waters, and a sunny patch of the Amazon River. I like to think that the sun hangs in the summer solstice sky just a few moments longer than it used to, since Mary is there to hold it up.
I continue to learn from the lessons of that period of my life. Mary truly changed my life forever, and I am grateful. I feel her energy around me all the time.
We rode it, Mary, as long as we could. I love you.
--- End quote ---
Thank you Alec for sharing that VERY touching, poignant and moving memory with us. The infinite grace of the human heart and spirit never ceases to amaze and inspite. So beautiful and so blessed.
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