Monday, March 26, 2007
signs of life.......
ok, so...after my drive back from my last meeting before my trip....i wandered my brick paths looking for signs of life since yesterday when i made the same rounds.......the purple coneflowers have come up.....and the jacob's ladder that i dug up from joni's old place on elk cave rd years ago on a trek with my dad.....one of the roses i transplanted last year that i had given up for dead is not dead.....there is one more in the iffy category, but with roses they are not dead until everything else is leafed out and blooming...then i will dig the blessed plant up...not until then......the meeting in question was lowkey enough to provide me cover to write out my to-do list.....like put the camera-connector into my purse so i can upload photos en france.....check!.......i have decided on my ensembles.....maybe not the most chic but the most comfortable.....i have already told my child that i will pack for her....and she seemed relieved by this offer......she has had a cold and is not feeling quite up to par.....hopefully this will pass before our plane takes off friday afternoon......i am trying to think of a fitting place to light a candle for chiara........she was with me on my first trip to chartres....but i don't see my daughter making that sidetrip....there is always notre dame...but that seems too big and impersonal...maybe st eustache....she was with me there....and that is an underappreciated paris monument...our group had quite a time holding the hand of the statues outside.....i am not catholic....but i find the lighting of candles in cathedrals very satisfying spiritually......yes, that sounds like a very good place to light a candle in her memory
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i just figured out who you are! i was with you and your middle child in Paris and I too insist on using all three of my names when being addressed (ltt is the only hint I shall give).
I was touched by your blog regarding Chaira. We all have special memories of her and anywhere in France is an appropriate, and meaningful place to light a candle. please light 2 and have a safe trip.
So how many of us are googling the universe hunting for whispers of Chiara? I'm struck by your roses still blooming, trying to figure out when Bill and Grazia will get to notice them again, in that way that life does and doesn't go on.
My first child was in Elena's class, surely a year behind your Russian-traveler, and she captained the same team as Charlotte-who-feels-for Notre-Dame. I find myself trying to count off where every child who's left town went and who's still safe.
Take care, and thank you for being out there when I'm using Google to know-and-not-know what happened in Boston.
ok, so...in answer to sporcupine....over 200 folks have looked at a blog i wrote nearly 5 years ago.....about chiara's graduation speech.....i am so very relieved that i documented her message.....because it means more to me now as a mother than it did at the time......who knew?...she knew.....she was always ahead of everybody else......a lesson for those of of us who forget that this may be the last day.......to make this responce more uptodate...i was struck just yesterday by the words of elizabeth edwards....who said.."Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying. That seems to be your only two choices"....chiara would have wanted us all to push forward......
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