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Nicholas Binion
September 26, 2007
As a small child, Mother taught me how to sit in the full lotus posture. She was a good tennis partner too until she replaced herself with a pro named Martin Buxby. He got me acing the competition for a while in Bridgehampton on services. She was literally a good physical influence on me during her "physical" life.
Who doesn't feel her spirit today as a spirit that lives?
Now that she has entered the "bardos" (the conscious planes of experience beyond life, according to some who even claim to remember it there) - if you see some value in the Tibetans' point of view - in my mind I imagine as they would see it, she may well be happily assuming the full lotus pose as she enters the light, sending us her love which is the most essential thing about her that I recall, and will always remember when I think of her.
I keep an open mind about the limitations of the physical universe and leave the rest to the God in whom we trust. Would that she were here, as she was in the full round. She lives as a beacon in my memory and one that is almost palpable.
I certainly remember the grapes and plums on the table in June on Mom's dining table, and who used to sew my trousers, of course; and the care she took to see that I wore clothing that fit my ever changing and unconventional frame sizes as I grew into adulthood. Now I have to go to a tailor for that attention.
Namaste, Mom, even if some may need a translation: "I honor the light within you." You were, and will always be the best. Bon Voyage wherever you are! My heart always belongs to you.
We're a lot bigger family now. Sometime I may meet our famous illustrator and a hero to some of my friends who directed me to his work, who is married to "the other Peggy," and others whom I have missed for a while and all their children. I certainly hope so. I'm the one on the other coast, the middle of "Peggy the first's" three - for those who may not have met me.
Lot's of love to Mr. May. Hang in there, Captain!
Lot's of love to everyone else who visits these pages from the kid who still sits in the lotus himself and feels the greatness of your life in my every breath, dear mother of mine - and good wife to Mr. May.
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