My Mom's Birthday

We need one another when we mourn and would be comforted.

We need one another when we are in trouble and afraid.

We need one another when we are in despair, in temptation,

and need to be recalled to

 our best selves again.

We need one another when we would accomplish some great
purpose, and cannot do it alone.

We need one another in the hour of success when we look

 for someone to share
 our triumphs.

We need one another in the

 hour of defeat, when with

encouragement we might

 endure and stand again.

We need one another
 when we come to die,
 and would have

gentle hands prepare us for the journey.

All our lives we are in need, and others are in need of us.

--- I found this in my Mom's papers, cut out from something.  I don't know who wrote it, but I think it is lovely.

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Today would have been my Mom's 74th birthday.   She died on September 15th 2004

at the age of 67.    Sometimes I still really can't believe she is gone.

I guess most people feel that way

 about loved ones who have

made the journey before us.

This picture was taken Christmas 1996.   She was 59, turning 60 the

following month.    It amazes me because her mother, my grandmother

Rachel is 60 years old in the picture on my blog banner...she is on the left.

My grandmother looks so much older

 than my mom at that age.

Also, my other grandmother, Pia,

 in the same pic, is 48 1/2 years old. 

  I am 50 and seem so much younger than she!   :o)    Again, maybe most

 people feel that way.  

I was trying to find a more

 recent picture of my Mom,

but couldn't find it.

I think the last one taken of the

 two of us together was  in 2001.

I don't know how that happened.

I know we talked on the phone

almost everyday.

And the last 3 months of her

life she lived with Mike and I.

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