Eulogy

This is what will be read tomorrow....for our friends far away....thanks for your thoughts.

This morning when I looked out the kitchen window and looked up at the overgrown green tree which somewhere in the fury of the past six weeks is now some of the most beautiful orange hues you could every see. In that very moment I was reminded it was the very tree my mother loved to look at this time of the year every year. As I thought of what a simple beauty it was my eyes filled with tears as I glanced down and looked at the empty patio and realized there will never be a day I would sit and have coffee in the backyard with my mother or hear her cracking a lobster claw on a summer afternoon.

The simple things, much like the changing in the color of the tree, remind me of the traditions that my mother practiced and preached. She was a mother, a sister a grandmother and a friend to many. She new a great love and she was loved. She was an integral part in the creation of lasting memories for many people. We shared lots of things together and she was one of my favorite mentors.
My mother was a very strong woman and she believed in doing the impossible and than she did it, clearly a quality she passed on.

As a realized it was time to get going with the day I was reminded of one of the last lessons that my mother taught, God uses good people to do great things. And I'm grateful to be able to say thank you, mother, for being a great woman who used your life to share some of those great things. We are blessed because mother left behind a quilt of memories rich with tradition and the attitude that anything is possible if you believe!

We may no longer see her but we’ll always have these special moments we shared with her. She will always have a special part in our hearts, her presence will be greatly missed.