A year ago

My mom passed away a year ago today. Photo #1 on the left is my mom in the brown shirt, her best friend (since high school) Eileen (in the blue shirt) and two other friends from Scribner, Nebraska (my hometown). Photo #2 is the street where my mom lived. Photo #3 is a sunset over a nearby soybean field. Photo #4 is a rose from one of the dozens of funeral flower arrangements. Click each image for a larger photograph.

When the Heavens Light Up
by Patty Larkin

Look at your hand there in the wind
Familiar as your name
You’re gonna spread your fingers like a wing
That will lift you up when you wave

You’re gonna wave good-bye
And the world will sigh
When The Heavens Light Up

You’re gonna hear a string of violin
Whisper soft and low
It’s gonna take you where the ocean ends
To the river red and gold

You’re gonna wave good-bye
And the world will sigh
When The Heavens Light Up

Look at your hand there in the wind
So far away, so near
You’re gonna leave a pillow when this ends
With a feather and a tear

You’re gonna wave good-bye
And the world will sigh
When The Heavens Light Up