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My Family :o) Hi Grandma!
Michelle DiChiara-Chaplin
September 8, 2008
As the hours and days and weeks all run into one another, it is amazing to think that almost a full year has passed since you were taken from us. Even 92 years is too soon. We still miss you so much grandma. We had a family reunion a few weeks ago in honor of you and grandpa. It was so nice to see everyone under happy circumstances. I hope you were watching us. Everyone was dancing and singing and eating delicious food. It was a wonderful time and we hope to make it a yearly event. It is important to me, as I get older, to spend time with people who bear the same blood as I do. Thank you for being the matriarch who made our reunion possible. I love you and miss you.
Brittany Shields
April 19, 2008
Grandmother
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Grandmother...so many images come to mind
whenever I speak your name;
It seems without you in my life
things have never been the same.
What happened to those lazy days
when I was just a child;
When my life was consumed in you
in your love, and in your smile.
What happened to all those times
when I always looked to you;
No matter what happened in my life
you could make my gray skies blue.
Grandmother, some days I hear your voice
and turn to see your face;
Yet in my turning...it seems
the sound has been erased.
Gradmother, who will I turn to for answers
when life does not make sense;
Who will be there to hold me close
when the pieces just don't fit.
Oh, Grandmother, if I could turn back time
and once more hear your voice;
I'd tell you that out of all the Grandmothers
you would still be my choice.
Please always know I love you
and no one can take your place;
Years may come and go
but your memory will never be erased.
Today, Jesus, as You are listening
in your home above;
Would you go and find my Gradmother
and give her all my love.
i miss you grandma;
your always here with me.
MUAHHS!
Michelle Chaplin
March 19, 2008
This poem has always held a special place in my heart. I remember the first time I came across it. My cousin Jerry had just passed away. He and I always promised each other that the first one of us who died would come back and tell the other what it was like. Jerry did not waste any time as I found this poem several days after his funeral in the newspaper. I believed that this poem was his way of telling me that he would always be with me, because death is not an ending. Now, so many years later, this poem has miraculously surfaced again. I was not looking for it. I had not even thought about it in quite some time. Imagine my shock. I was looking for a poem to comfort a friend who had just lost a beloved dog and there it was, among pages and pages of poems.... This poem. I have to wonder.... Is it Jerry, reminding me that this is not the end for Grandma. Is it Grandma herself.... Reminding me that loved ones never truly die. Whatever the reason, Whoever it's from....I know it's a sign. A sign of love and hope. A sign that someday we will all be reunited again. Our loved ones are not gone. They did not die.
I Did Not Die
by
Mary E Faye
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn’s rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there. I did not die.
Jerry Solar
March 13, 2008
Hi Grandma;
I know you already know this, but I got a call from Auntie Carol earlier today letting me know of this great idea for family, friends and all you have touched to express how much you have meant to us.
Well, as a young grandchild you were always "my grandma with the poodles". It wasn't until Pierre chewed off a piece of my finger that you eventually became known as "my grandma with the poodles and my finger", or "the woman with the big man that could swallow a hot dog on a roll whole".
I hope this guest book will continue to offer all of us an opportunity to share in our feelings and experiences with you amongst one another.
I dearly miss our "get togethers" and how you would sing to me in Italian. I know that you are in a much better place and that you are with Grandpa again after 24 years...
I think about you alot and do realize that I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for you. You have touched many of our lives in so many ways. I will always love you and know that I will see you again some day....
I hope you and Grandpa will be ready for me. I will never stop loving you Grandma. You'll always be with me.
Thank you for touching my life!!
Love always,
Your Grandson Jerry
Vikki Green
March 11, 2008
"The flow of time is always cruel... its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days..."
DEBORAH DUNDERDALE
March 10, 2008
GRANDMA: I'M SIGNING THIS MUCH TOO LATE BECAUSE I JUST FOUND OUT TODAY 3/10/08, FROM YOUR LOVELY DAUGHTER, "MY AUNTIE CAROL," THAT THIS EXISTED. THE WORLD IS VERY EMPTY BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT HERE. I MISS YOU TERRIBLY. I MISS SEEING YOUR FACE LIGHT UP, EVERY TIME I ENTERED THE ROOM. I MISSED YOU CALLING ME ON MY BIRTHDAY. I VERY MUCH MISS TALKING TO YOU ON THE TELEPHONE TO GET THE FAMILY UPDATE. I KNOW YOU'RE WATCHING YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY, SO I HOPE YOU LOVED YOUR FUNERAL MASS WITH THE TRIBUTE FROM FATHER MICHAEL, THE FAMILY READINGS, AND THE EULOGY. I'M GLAD THE ENTIRE FAMILY WAS PRESENT IN YOUR HONOR. I KNOW YOU LOVED YOUR MEMORIAL MASS IN THE CHAPEL OF THE MADONNA. PLEASE KNOW THAT I LOVE AND MISS YOU.
YOUR GRANDDAUGHTER,
DEBBIE
Renee Paone
September 26, 2007
Grandma, the void is deep and I will never forget our many moments together laughing and joking and just being silly. Those are the greatest memories for me. I love you. Renee
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