Tag: grandma jean
-
New Year’s Night: Prayer Candles Lighting Up All through the Week
I got to see the candles at La Salette shrine lit with my messages this time. I found the side wall with a written paper in the Chapel of Light is where they print the dedications.I lit these candles for the full week, including the message I wrote for my grandma with her full name, […]
-
Morning-time, Let’s Listen Now, It’s Delicate Yet That’s Why I Love It
I have just made a very important revision to this, my apologies. Another interesting timing happened yesterday as a poet friend shared a photo of herself in a garden in Lebanon that had featured a stone sculpture of Kahlil Gibran and I’d shared a couple of his quotes the same time yesterday. I was happy […]
-
Morning Tea with a Guest from Above, My Grandma
I set up a chair for whichever guest may arrive for tea this morning. I imagined then my grandma sat down, saying “Hi Jade.” She would be awake early like me even on a Sunday. I put on Frank Sinatra’s soothingly older sounding songs from Past, Present, and Future, the musician she’d listened to when […]
-
Symbolism in Easter Egg Painting, Memorial Dish, and Yoga at the Table
My sister, Jenna made this beautiful antipasto the way my Grandma had made it each year, in honor of her. Stuffed artichokes made by my Mom. (My husband Dan got cut off here, but half his face is nice too.) My mom is in the center, I’m to the right of her, and my brother […]