Remembering Mary - pictures from childhood to adulthood, having fun with friends and family. (Was put together by the "neices and nephews" as requested by Mary.)

Notebooks, cards and pens for people to write letters and draw pictures for Mary.

A drawing to Mary. Notebooks were all over the room so people could draw privately or in a group.

A photo of Mary ( and a prayer shawl bordering the top of her photo),

below people left cards and photos for Mary.

Bunny - made by Mary

 

The room - people had been drawing and decorating Mary's casket for a few hours at this point. The room was full of sunflowers and gerbera daisies - Mary's favorite.

 

All the art supplies and a birds nest

Mary as an angel and artist

People decorating Mary's casket.

This is the side that many family members drew on (Little Katie, Sheila, Jessica, and Natalie - maybe more)

The other side - Joanna did the drawing with the 3 trees and the sun.

Jessica's and Natalie's drawings up close.

 

Sheila's drawing of the "Super 7" - the 3 big girls, 3 little girls and Philip

Drawings and paintings

Mary and Marcus - drawn by Marcus

The waterlily that was in the entry way

Gerbera daisies

Sunflower

My Epitaph

If I were to lift the poetry

from your heart

it would read like a Bach cantata,

where before it would have

syncopated and howled.

 

Where has the howling gone?

 

If I were to pick

flowers from your heart

they would echo

a meadow of silver, white yellow and green

with odd patches of red, blue and violet

in no fixed pattern (whatsoever)

If I were to sing

the song of our heart,

what would it say

about life everlasting?

- M.P.

 

BACK

Remembering Mary

Live for me.

Laugh for me.

Do good and give to the world for me.

Grow for me.

Share for me.

Mourn for me,

but let your own spirit fill again

with friends, family and new laughter.

Or I'll come down and kick your ass

as a gopher or horned ow - ha ha.

A POEM BY MARY

WRITTEN AUGUST 29, 2004