Though we cannot see you with outward eyes,
We know our soul’s gaze is upon your face,
Smiling back at us from within everything…

~ John O’Donohue ~

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awakening today in the land of my birth, such a current of liberation flows as my daughter and i prepare for the celebration of my mother’s earthly life now transmuted into eternal life…

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a dream of many moons ago foreshadows this moment… i am driving my mother across the long bridge over the sound connecting mainland to the island when suddenly a tsunami appears and we are in the black swirling water… knowing my mother isn’t a strong swimmer, i search and search for her in the water and finally surrender to i’ve done the best i could and in that moment am transported into paradise and in the next to our beach cottage where my daughter is…

i know i must call my siblings to let them know our mother is lost at sea, a call i do not want to make but i must… my daughter stands behind me as I make the call and i hear a rustling and turn around and there’s my mother standing with my daughter!!!!!

what an amazing grace that my mother survived and how interesting that she wears my nightgown and hair and smile…

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yes, she lives on forever in our one heart…