Thursday, December 16, 2021

Aunt Marian tribute! & Merry Christmas!

 

Marian! Tender-memories!

(December 28, 1927-December 15, 2021)

 

A loving-tribute

 

And---we are better…for the blessing of loving Marian! Amen!

 

Marian always smiled, was kind and pleasant; a sacred-blessing.

 

She could ice skate on one leg, crank the ice cream maker,

catch crawfish, bottle ketchup, celebrate and party! Wow!

 

We went swimming, on picnics, shopping and always had “fun”.

 

I never once heard an unkind word from this fine-lady! Thank you!

 

A devoted wife---soul mates…”Bill & Marian”!

 

She loved and was ever-Proud of her sons, Larry & Don.

Her eyes sparkled when she spoke of Madeline, Christina and “Sir” William.

 

Candy says Marian never aged, always youthful in appearance and demeanor.

We sure enough laughed a great deal when we visited; such fun-events.

 

She was a lot like her mother, Aleda and she worshipped her Dad, “Poppy”.

Marian was most Proud of her beloved brother Carl Sr. and loved us all.

She enjoyed a plethora of friends; continually celebrating delicious-life.

 

I am blessed to have known the-“Lady”! Proud to be her-friend!

 

Rest-in-Peace! Miss-Marian! Thank you! God-bless you! Amen!

 

Live! Love! Laugh! Focus contemplate!

Vigilant-be! No-one’s future is ever-late!

 

Faith! Family! Freedom! Might just be all there really---Is!

In one eternal-instant the only mercy-blessing will be…His!

 

Amen!

 

Focus-Love!---Blossom-Life!...Celebrate a Peace!-bouquet! Amen!

 

Class-act!---Miss-Marian!...1st-class!  All the-way!

 

Offered to Marian’s family & friends with Love-affection!

Respectfully, Lovely Lady Candice Leah & (simple-humble “me”)


And---


Faith! Family! Freedom!-trinity!

 

Faith! Family! Freedom! A “worthy”-life everything!

A Love!-comfort trinity warm-satiating whisper-wind!

Amen!

 

Cold-fog comfort!

Christmas!-everyday!?---in memory?…easy!---in real-time?...easier! (by-choice)

 

Early-winter frost embraces-fully high upper-branches of the bare,

old elm–tree in the side yard between the rock-house where Grandma

and Grandpa lived when  I was just a kid and the Maeystown Creek which

still flows a frothy-churn caressing her rock-bottom interspersed with myriad tumbles

of miniature crystal-waterfalls as she relentlessly meanders westward to the Mississippi.

 

Obfuscating frozen-fog hugging-close the high, bare tree-limbs is captured in a

5” X 7” pen-and-ink drawing by Wip Wippermann, a former village-resident.

The stark black & white daguerreotype-image captures the subtle home-ambiance

of a by-gone era; it hangs in our house with honor and respect deserving of Family!

 

Creativity-tribute to the artist preserves true-emotion:  Faith! Family! Freedom!

Comfort-warm devotion on yonder whisper-wind imagery by Wip Wippermann

 

In my “often”-visits to the village-town, a plethora-of-memories offers a

satiated-spirit symphony of melodious Love!-tones sung by a pure-soul.

 

A cold northern-chill errant-wind challenges my heavy winter hooded-parka

as I huddle-tight against the onslaught hovering across the narrow-lane in

search of some-reminder, a shadow on the old-house frosted-window, perhaps,

Dear Grandma-Rose, a Saint in life and now in-heaven, or Grandpa-Edwin at

the kitchen-table on a Sunday anticipating the weekly-arrival of sweet-Family!

 

And---within the expectation of my-fantasy…the chill feels suddenly…cozy!

 

A-“They don’t live here, anymore!”-reality hinders-not my-Love! found in a

Fantasy-of-emotion within this gentle-heart embracing always sacred-Family!

 

Know this & most---“I love you!”…then…still, and…always! Amen!

 

Thank-you!-kin! One-and-all! For Maeystown-memories and my holy-mantra trinity:

 

Faith! Family! Freedom! and Father! Son! & Holy Spirit!

Amen!

 

Merry Christmas! (2019)    Love, Candy & Carl

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