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, […]

  01/01/2023 8:29 pm

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• May 7th… Mother’s Day…Bedroom Retreat

  

  library corner this afternoon by the window This morning I was very excited to take out the newest flower that had been pressed for a month in a closed book on the shelf (without me intentionally looking; one day I opened the book to read and happened to see it; placed it back.) 🤫It’s a […]

  05/07/2022 8:07 pm

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• Morning Tea in Honor of My Grandma on Her Birthday, New Flowers and Poetry

  

  *** Flowers found and brought home this weekend from local garden shop, purple pansies and white fragrant climbing blossoms scented with a little more honey than florally; I received care directions from the garden staff for this potted variety…I will find out the fragrant one’s name today, flowers in time for spring and my grandma’s […]

  04/04/2022 9:04 am

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• A Moon So Near

  

  Before dawn, the moon so close to my face and near to my gaze; I closed my eyes and slept some more, smiling within. This morning… ‘Rumi’ black tea with a splash of almond milk in a teacup my Grandma gave me and Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a gift I so welcomed […]

  01/27/2022 7:24 am

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• 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 […]

  07/23/2021 11:05 am

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• 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 […]

  06/20/2021 7:28 am

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• 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 […]

  04/04/2021 11:32 pm

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• Happy Birthday, Grandma and Happy Easter

  

  My Grandma and my Mom synced in purple Happy birthday to my Grandma (she would turn 97, first one in heaven) and Happy Easter—how grateful I am for God rising, and also my own healing, as I’d believed in God but not in my own healing’s possibility. I was glad my Grandma knew I had […]

  04/04/2021 10:21 am

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• Grandma’s Birthday Coming Up, What She’d Say

    My grandma’s 97th birthday is soon to come this Easter Sunday. She’d passed away last year a few months after turning 96. At first I wasn’t sure if these holidays coinciding this year were a good thing. But I know what she would say if I thought I couldn’t celebrate Easter happily. “What are […]

  03/27/2021 6:14 pm

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• A Small Memory That Makes Me Smile

  not the espresso mentioned here Even though it seems the big events in life are more emphasized or spoken about, my memory has mostly centered on the smaller memories, moments that may not be part of the turning point of a novel or movie, but make me smile or remind me of a person in […]

  11/15/2020 1:15 pm

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• For A New Friend

  in memory of Celeste Birthday: May 2nd Written on November 3, 2020: A few weeks ago one night your name came to mind, although I had not heard much about you most recently. I decided to add you as a friend on Facebook that night as I had heard of you as a great friend, […]

  11/03/2020 5:13 pm

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• Always, Grandma

  Grandma Jean  in her wedding dress  A few months ago, I lost one of my very best friends, my grandma, who passed away peacefully in her sleep. I cried when I heard of the news, of course and I miss her, but there was a sense of relief that she had lived until age 96, […]

  10/18/2020 12:46 pm

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