I had known Nancy practically all my life. Her passage was such a shock to me and I will never stop looking for her face at reunions, at gatherings...I found a poem that I especially liked. I hope you like it too...
"I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says "There, she is gone."
"Gone where?"
"Gone from my sight. That is all."
She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port. Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at that moment when someone says "There, she is gone" there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout - "Here she comes!"
I will forever miss my Nancy! She and her mom and dad were there for me when my daddy died. She stood by me as a friend when I was pregnant and married in high school. She even threw me a baby shower for Jeff. I loved that girl, she was my BFF. We stayed in touch thru email in the later years...and to this day I can not bring myself to delete her email address from my computer. She was an ever smiling presence in my life, as she was in many others. I loved her and miss her so.
Cherish the years we have left with our friends and classmates. Value the gift of life and give of yourself to others.
Jannis Hallford
I had known Nancy practically all my life. Her passage was such a shock to me and I will never stop looking for her face at reunions, at gatherings...I found a poem that I especially liked. I hope you like it too..."I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails
to the morning breeze and
starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until at length
she hangs like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says "There, she is gone."
"Gone where?"
"Gone from my sight. That is all."
She is just as large in mast and hull and spar
as when she left my side and she is just as able
to bear her load of living freight
to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at that moment when someone says
"There, she is gone"
there are other eyes watching her coming,
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout -
"Here she comes!"
by Henry Van Dyke
Shirley Webb (Vines)
I will forever miss my Nancy! She and her mom and dad were there for me when my daddy died. She stood by me as a friend when I was pregnant and married in high school. She even threw me a baby shower for Jeff. I loved that girl, she was my BFF. We stayed in touch thru email in the later years...and to this day I can not bring myself to delete her email address from my computer. She was an ever smiling presence in my life, as she was in many others. I loved her and miss her so.Cherish the years we have left with our friends and classmates. Value the gift of life and give of yourself to others.
Shirley Webb Vines