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for Sam Vincent
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Gege
July 30, 2024
I miss you with EVERY breath my sweet, sweet Sammy
Your eternal Mama
Sallie Anne Vincent
May 27, 2024
So very sorry for our loss! We are related, but I never had the pleasure of meeting him! My name is Sallie Anne Vincent, daughter of Wallace Clayton Vincent Jr.
December 25, 2019
You LOVED winter solstice and Christmas..I celebrate your golden spirit sweet Sam until we are reunited..I miss you greatly my love and LOVE you even more..eternally your mama
November 5, 2019
Aww Sweet Sammy, I miss EVERYTHING about YOU, EVERY moment,EVERY laugh,word,hug,tear,song,food,walking,flying,
road trip,silence and EVERYTHING..just BEING on this earth TOGETHER was ALL I EVER NEEDED, WANTED..YOU ARE MY LOVE,MY LIFE,MY SWEET,SWEET,SAMMY and I remain your mama
September 22, 2019
When you were young this is the age I thought about, wondering what you would be doing at this age..and here it is NEVER thinking you would be here... we ALL gathered for YOU, eating a Greek feast of foods you loved and surrounding your sacred space with ALL our LOVE..I know you love when we are there, I can feel your energy ALL around..a beautiful hummingbird came for nourishment from the flowering Salvia and I said hello to YOU! YOU are MY LOVE, MY LIFE, MY SWEET,SWEET SAM and I remain your eternal MAMA
July 30, 2019 for SAMMY
July 31, 2019
ETERNAL LOVE FOR YOU SWEET SAMMY..We gathered for you once again, holding each other,sharing our loving memories, crying, laughing and our deep, deep LOVE..YOU are MY LIFE,MY LOVE, MY SAMMY..and I AM ETERNALLY your MAMA
April 19, 2019
My sweet, sweet Sammy..there is never a moment I am not longing to hold you, kiss you, hug you and just sit beside you and talk,listen,talk,listen...you are my LOVE, my LIFE and I am eternally your mama
February 15, 2019
YOU my sweet Sammy are my ETERNAL VALENTINE!
with SO MUCH LOVE..your mama
ETERNAL LOVE
January 16, 2019
My grieving heart is filled with memories of you my LOVE, my LIFE, my sweet, sweet Sammy..from the moment I first saw you to the last time I kissed you..I am always thinking of you and miss EVERYTHING about you my love..your eternal mama
miss you with every breath
December 25, 2018
You ALWAYS LOVED CHRISTMAS my sweet Sammy..I brought you a garland of hearts and found a super ball, another thing you loved and would often get in your Christmas stocking, while walkin to your sacred space, so I left it for you..my LOVE, my LIFE, my sweet, sweet Sammy..ETERNALLY YOURS..mama
my LOVE, my LIFE, my sweet SAMMY
November 16, 2018
"As far as I can tell, most everything means nothing, except some things that mean
EVERYTHING"
with every breath my sweet Sammy,
with EVERY single breath..ETERNAL LOVE,mama
October 31, 2018
YOU LOVED Halloween from the VERY beginning..LOVE you my sweet,precious Sammy
Eternally, your mama
Cassady C
October 29, 2018
Sam, it's only by chance that I've come across this page and learned what happened to you so many years after we parted ways at BHS. We were in independent study together for a while, and your girlfriend was my friend too. We hung out many times, and we cut class together. Went to the Gilman a few times together too. I think you gave me a patch or a pin once.
My heart aches deep in my chest just reading your mom's entries over the last 7 years. She misses you so, so, so much, but she keeps your memory alive. Every month, year after year. I'm grateful and touched to read her messages, although each one brings a fresh set of tears to my eyes. You are so loved.
September 22, 2018
I know you could feel ALL the LOVE swirling around you and your sacred space as we gathered for your 29th birthday my sweet Sam..such loyal, loving friends you have! YOU are my LOVE, my LIFE, my most precious BLESSING..ETERNAL LOVE sweetheart..your MAMA
August 3, 2018
We gathered at your sacred space my love for you on July 30th with SO MUCH LOVE and missing you with every breath..WE WILL be REUNITED!
July 18, 2018
I miss ALL your magic sweet Sammy, with every breath..you are my LOVE, my LIFE ETERNALLY, your mama
July 16, 2018
I see and FEEL your beautiful spirit my sweet Sammy in your heavenly skies, as the sun wakes the morning and then kisses it goodnight..I miss EVERYTHING about you my love, I am grateful for the beauty..your eternal mama
May 2, 2018
Moon came along with me to visit you at your sacred space..your garden is full of spring blossoms and your beautiful spirit is the reason! You are my LOVE, my LIFE and my sweet Sammy and I remain your mama with SO MUCH LOVE ETERNALLY...
April 3, 2018
And yet another season of spring has arrived WITHOUT you my love..the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming in rejoice of the season but for me, there is no rejoicing for YOU are not here...YOU are my LOVE, my LIFE and my sweet,sweet Sammy..and I remain your mama.
Lindy Tuttle
December 25, 2017
You are missed so very much Sam. You are loved.
on the longest night of the year, i will light a candle for you my LOVE, my LIFE eternally your mama
December 23, 2017
Another winter solstice without you here, to sing to, light a special candle for each other and decorate our winter solstice tree and windows with paper snowflakes...I sang our song and lit a candle for you and Arlene and can only hope you heard my song and felt the loving light..ETERNAL LOVE my sweet one..your mama
December 12, 2017
The yellow narcissus has once again returned to bloom at your sacred space MY LOVE and reminds me that your fierce spirit eternally feeds it's blossoms..I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU and MISS YOU with EVERY BREATH..YOUR MAMA..ETERNALLY
November 24, 2017
Every holiday is so unbearably hard, especially the ones that you loved cooking for..missing you with every breath my love, my life, my sweet Sammy..with eternal love..your mama
Our Remembrance Altar
November 3, 2017
We gathered in loving remembrance of YOU and all the loves who have left this earth..with SO many memories filled with GREAT LOVE. YOU are my LOVE, my LIFE and FOREVER my sweet SAMMY..ETERNALLY your Mama
October 20, 2017
I miss you most of all my darling, when autumn leaves begin to fall..you are my love, my life my sweet Sammy..with eternal love..your mama
September 23, 2017
We gathered in LOVING celebration of your 28th birthday on September 21st...SO much LOVE in the bountiful embraces, never ending stories and SO wishing YOU and Arlene were still here to REALLY celebrate!! FOR YOU my sweet SAM are FOREVER missed, FOREVER remembered and FOREVER LOVED and I am ETERNALLY GRATEFUL you chose me to be your mama...
August 8, 2017
It is now August my sweet Sam..July was such a brutal month, I could barely stand it..in fact I didn't stand much for I slept a lot, a way to get relief from the pain of you being gone, which I don't believe I will ever really accept although I visit you daily where we laid you down..I love you SO much,EVERYTHING I do reminds me of YOU and I look SO forward to the day WE are reunited..my LOVE, my LIFE, my BEAUTIFUL SAM..your mama eternally
YOU ARE GOLDEN
June 21, 2017
YOU are MY SUNSHINE..MY ONLY SUNSHINE..We would always celebrate the changing of the seasons one way or another..and now on this day of Summer Solstice I am thinking of how much you lighted my life, my heart with your golden spirit my sweet Sam..I miss EVERYTHING about YOU..my LOVE, my LIFE, my SAM..eternal LOVE Sammy..your mama
April 16, 2017
Missing you so much today..as it is a holiday that you loved, Greek Easter..for you would be hugging at least 50 family members, cooking and eating all the greek foods you loved, hearing and sharing stories and being surrounded by SO MUCH LOVE..I don't celebrate anything anymore but it is impossible to not be bombarded by everything surrounding me of when holidays are here and it always makes a flood of memories come up and I MISS YOU SO VERY MUCH..SO MUCH LOVE, Eternally, mama
April 3, 2017
We all gathered for your beloved Arlene on April 1st and once again the endless cycle of deepest grief begins again..missing you both so very much my LOVE, my LIFE, my sweet, dearest SAM..ETERNALLY, your Mama
Your first half Birthday celebration at 6 months old
March 22, 2017
Your half birthday was yesterday my sweet Sam..you would've been 27 and a half..It feels like yesterday when we celebrated your first half birthday when you were 6 months old..I'm missing you SO much..I love you SO much and am lost on this planet without you here...we will be reunited..eternally your mama
my eternal valentine
February 16, 2017
With EVERY breath, with EVERY step I am missing you my LOVE, my LIFE, my SAMMY..
I remain your mama eternally with SO MUCH LOVE and SO MUCH GRIEF until the moment we are reunited...
you and your beloved Yaya
November 3, 2016
My Sweet Sammy...you are with your beloved Yaya once more and for that I find some comfort that she is beside you but I also know that the two beings who loved me so deeply and unconditionally are no longer on this earth..I long for the day we are reunited my love, my life, my Sammy...eternally your mama
ONLY LOVE
September 27, 2016
My sweet,sweet Sam..it has taken me almost a week to write about our loving gathering for your 27th birthday..each day leading up to the 21st of September was filled with such vivid memories of carrying you for 9 months and then finally holding your precious being..and as the sun set on your birthday this year I was crippled with such grief..for I miss holding you with every breath I take my LOVE,my LIFE,my SAM...ETERNALLY with the deepest LOVE..your
Mama
August 1, 2016
YOU my LIFE,my LOVE,my SAM are etched in so many hearts..we gathered for YOU..only hope you could hear our stories,feel our tears watering your sacred bed and knowing how deeply, achingly you are missed..
YOU SHOULD BE HERE!SO MUCH LOVE,ETERNALLY...
your mama
An old friend
July 30, 2016
Today I am remembering; memories have been surfacing and I send love.
July 9, 2016
I miss EVERYTHING about YOU, SWEET SAM...but especially your wisdom..eternally with SO much LOVE, your mama
June 8, 2016
This world is so very empty without you in it..your laughter, enormous loving hugs, music, words of wisdom and brilliant cooking..EVERYTHING about YOU is what I long to be reunited with my LOVE, my LIFE, MY SWEET SAM...eternally your Mama
May 1, 2016
Missing you so on this day, Greek Easter my love..I hope that you and Theo Ted created your own amazing Greek feast and could feel ALL the LOVE sent your way..you are my LIFE, my LOVE, my SAM and I am eternally your Mama with the deepest of LOVE...
April 3, 2016
We gathered with SO MUCH LOVE for your beloved Arlene on April 1st..I can only hope that you both could feel the enormous LOVE..eternally your mama
March 17, 2016
My dear Sweet Sammy..there is no other place I'd rather be on this earth than at your sacred space..so spending hours yesterday, tending your garden, feeling the warmth of the almost spring sun and just being as close as I can get now to you..I was grateful..you are my LIFE, my LOVE and my SAM..eternally, your Mama
February 5, 2016
Thinkin' of you while listenin' to Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken" and how we'd play it REALLY LOUD and put it on repeat and dance and dance and dance when you were only 4! Missing you so much my LOVE, my LIFE, my SAM
January 26, 2016
my dearest sammy, my truest friend..i miss everything about you and the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and now years have no significance for me now other than they equal to the time I have not held you, kissed you,hugged you, talked to you, laughed with you, traveled with you and shared the world with you..which is ALL I ever dreamed of doing..i long for the day we are reunited my love, my life, my Sam..your mama eternally
on the longest night of the year i will light candles for you
December 21, 2015
Oh my sweet sammy..how i miss you on this winter solstice..no longer to get our traditional tree, light special candles for each other and sing our solstice song..i can only hope that you heard me singing to you tonight as i lit so many special candles for you my love and cried as many tears as the raindrops that fell on this cold, lonely rainy winter night without you...you are my love and my life and i remain your mama...eternally
November 27, 2015
EVERY SECOND & MINUTE OF EVERY DAY I and SO many are missing you being here on earth my sweet Sammy..YOU are my LOVE & my LIFE and I am ETERNALLY your Mama with SO much LOVE...
September 21, 2015
I carried you within me until the fall equinox arrived in the year of 1989..I carried you in my arms until your feet touched the ground six months later..I carried your tender hand in mine and mine in yours throughout your almost twenty-two years on this earth...and now on this day, the 26th year of your birth...I carry you in every cell of my being...especially my shattered heart..you are eternally my LOVE, my LIFE and my sweet Sammy..and I will forever remain your mama with only the deepest of LOVE...
August 26, 2015
we all gathered for you my sweet boy on the 30th the tragic date you left this earth but i imagine you could feel our energy, hear our voices, laughter and tears with the stories we told of you, you could feel all the love and as i visit you every day, tend your sacred garden and talk to you about the life that is left behind i miss you with every breath i breathe and every step i walk...when i am here with you as the sun kisses the sky goodnight I feel as if you have given me the gifts of the exquisite colors before the night falls..you are my love and my life and i remain your mama..eternally
July 4, 2015
LOVE YOU SO MUCH
MY LOVE,
MY LIFE,
MY SAM.. no warm July ever again..
eternally your MAMA
June 21, 2015
My sweet Sammy..spent some time with your Dad today on yet another father's day without you my love..sharing so many memories from the time you were born to us and beyond..and missing you with each breath..such a great love you had for each other which is eternal..so much love, so much pain without our boy, our love, our life..how i wish to awaken from this nightmare of you being no longer with us..your mama, eternally
June 16, 2015
My precious Sammy..wherever you may be at this moment you must know I have loved you from the moment I knew you were residing in me...what a beautiful gift you were to me and to us all my love, my life, my Sammy..how I miss you with each breath..eternally your mama with so much love
May 7, 2015
My beautiful Sammy...how I long to hold you, talk to you, just be with you..but this is all I can do..to tell you how deeply I love you, eternally until we are once again reunited..and oh what a beautiful reunion that will be..you are my love, my life my sweet Sammy and I remain your mama
April 19, 2015
This morning when I poured my coffee and went into the garden, under the open skies, where I always feel closer to you my sweet Sammy, I looked in the cup and saw this heart emerge...it made me think that you had sent me some love, reminding me that you are everywhere now, except right here where I long for you the most..it is still unbelievable that you are gone from this earth my love, my life, my Sammy..i miss you with each breath I breathe..and remain eternally your mama with the deepest of love
April 5, 2015
We lit so many candles for your beloved Arlene on April first on the sacred heart table Mieke and I made for you both..We hope the blaze of the collective light reached you my love, as well as all the stories, laughter and missing of the fierce and beautiful energy you both brought to this earth..you are my love and my life and I eternally remain your mama...
March 21, 2015
grateful for the beautiful gift from above sweet sammy as the sun kissed the sky good night this spring equinox..you are my love and my life eternally...mama
March 20, 2015
Today as the sky holds equal light and darkness I have entered another season, the season of spring without you here..I miss everything about you sweet sammy..i stayed with you till sunset tonight..i always feel you and arlene have orchestrated the colors..so much love..so much pain without you both..you are my love and my life..and i remain your mama eternally
March 2, 2015
another day has ended...dark and light, light and dark..this day felt like it would never end..when i'm awake i am always thinking of you, missing you so very much..wishing i could hold you, talk to you, share this life which is the only thing i ever wanted to do.and you are the last thought i have before i sleep and the first when i awaken..i play music loud both at piedmont and at our home hoping you will hear it and talk and sing to you, hoping you hear my song and my thoughts..sometimes i hear your voice telling me you love me, just like you always did..another winter is nearing it's end..i no longer keep a calendar or wear a watch for time has no meaning anymore..it's just light and darkness..i look so forward to being reunited with you, wherever you are i want to be..you are my love and my life sweet sammy and i love you so very very deeply..and i remain your mama eternally
January 30, 2015
my sweet sammy..i awoke yesterday morning and for a split second i believed you hadn't died and in the next second the reality hit and hit so very hard..all i have ever wanted is to be awoken from this horrific nightmare and for that first second of awakening i thought my deepest wish had come true..i miss you so deeply with every breath i take my love..you should be here and without you here continues to be truly unbearable..you are my love and my life my sweet sammy and i will eternally be your mama with so much love
December 26, 2014
YOU loved Christmas..so of course I loved it too Sammy..but now I dread when it gets near,or any holiday for that matter, and can't wait for it be over, for people to stop saying "happy holidays"..nothing happy about it..and if every place I look wasn't plastered with reminders of it I would not know it was here..that's why I try to stay away from those reminders,I know the seasons, the full moons, the smell in the air and the stars, fog and rain...but holidays I don't look forward to anymore, they just remind me in a enormous way that you won't be here..i love and miss everything about you my sweet sammy..and i remain your mama eternally
December 23, 2014
another winter solstice has arrived without you, i sang our song to you my love..so hoping the words we had sung to each other for so many longest night of the year's would reach you, wherever you are now...and missing you so very, very much..you loved this time of year and because of that it is even more difficult when it arrives once again...i love you so very much my Sammy..my heart is permanently shattered..you are my love and my life and i remain your mama eternally..
love from above
December 14, 2014
my dearest sammy...sitting on your steps you sent me this beautiful heart and i felt your love...how i wish to feel your hugs..missing you so very much my love..another winter solstice is approaching and i will light special candles for you and your love and sing the winter solstice song loud enough to be carried to the heavens...my love, my life, my sammy..i remain your mama
November 27, 2014
My dearest Sammy...missing you so very much today, this day when family gathers and all i want to do is be near you, only with you..every day is so brutal without you but especially on these days when many gather to share food and love..you are my love and my life sweet son and I remain your mama...
November 16, 2014
Mieke and I brought you and your beloved orange tulips and sunflowers and sat with you our loves in the warmth of the sun's rays..missing you so very much with such disbelief that you are no longer here, to hold and hug..oh how i miss your beautiful strong hugs..and everything about you my sweet Sammy, my love, my life...what is this existence i now reside in? i long to be reunited with you and feel you engulf me with your loving arms..with ALL my love..i remain your mama
October 25, 2014
Sweet Sammy, oh how I wish I could just fall asleep on your bed, where you now lay, remembering for so many years, laying next to you as we talked about your day and your deepest thoughts whether they be of fear or love...and now with the season changing, once again, the days are shorter and I remain until the sun falls into darkness..the skies are beautiful but nothing matches the beauty of you sammy..i long for the day we are reunited..even with all the love from the friends and family who have chosen to stay close I feel so alone in this life without you..you are my love and my life my dearest Sam and I remain your mama...
October 7, 2014
my dearest sammy..i could feel you and your arlene at the ocean on her birthday yesterday..you left us heart rocks and the clouds formed as angel wings..i faced the waves and breathed you in and felt your love, your beautiful love..you should both be here dear one...being near the fierceness and beauty of this planet's waters reminded me of you both..you are my love and my life and i remain your mama with eternal love
September 21, 2014
You my sweet Sam are my LOVE and my LIFE on this day of your birth 25 years ago..missing and loving you eternally..we will gather for you and eat your favorite sushi and continue to remember your brilliant light with SO much LOVE and pain...I remain your Mama
August 13, 2014
my heart is filled with so many beautiful memories of you and the exquisite light you blessed me with...they are all i have left here on this planet earth..until we are reunited..YOU are my love and my life and i remain your mama
August 5, 2014
brought you orange roses that Mia and Lis had sent from New York, brought them on this day, 36 months ago that we laid you down..Amalie came and we sat and talked and cried..after she left I laid on your bed and listened to all the songs that remind me of you my love and watched the clouds changing forms and longed for you so much...there is no ease for this enormous pain..and when I returned home and sat in the garden out back a Mourning Dove continually sang it's mournful song, as if it knew what a excruciatingly sad day this is...you are my love and my life sweet sammy and i remain your mama
July 31, 2014
we all gathered yesterday with SO MUCH LOVE for you my sweet Sammy..as each month passes, 36 now, it gets no easier...only so much more painful..we lined your bed with flowers and Dharma laid the beautiful, what seemed to be 5 foot, daisy chain around your stone..I told everyone after we had visited you for hours and that it was time to go back to the house where you would be also...in every pore of that house that you loved...i know you could feel the LOVE...all of them LOVE you so...as do i sweet Sammy, as do I..you are my love and my life and I remain your mama
July 3, 2014
a dear friend of yours, who was inspired by you showed up at piedmont the other day with a beautiful bouquet of sunflowers, telling me every time she saw sunflowers they always reminded her of you..me too sweet sammy..we talked and just sat with you..my eyes fill with tears often these days in july..and spending time with her brought many tears..she sent me a loving note the next day letting me know how much she saw you in me..and again this brought tears to my eyes..for i always knew how much alike we are..and to your dear friends too..i ache to be near you..i miss you so very, very much my love..with such deep love for you my sweet sammy..i remain your mama
June 27, 2014
it is nearing the time you left this earth my sweet sammy..and although my heart remains heavy with sadness..it is this time of year that i find myself barely able to carry this grieving heart..all through the year i bring you sunflowers for they always remind me of YOU, our amazing time in arles where they filled fields with their golden glow...and now in summer they bloom all around town and in the garden i started when you left...i miss you so much and love you even more...you are my love and my life my dear sammy..and it is during this time and time approaching i gasp for breath and continue to wish to be awoken from this nightmare that is now my existence...with the deepest of love, i remain your mama
May 31, 2014
I keep hoping for one more day, one more hug, one more talk, one more road trip,one more...I heard someone walking up the street late last night and thought, No that's not my Sammy..he never shuffled like that..your steps were strong and purposeful...I was brought back to thinking you were coming home and for a second I believed it, like this nightmare didn't happen and as soon as that feeling came it vanished into the night air and once again I was alone, without you my love..you are my love and my life and I remain your mama with my shattered heart..
April 1, 2014
We held each other so tight as we cried and cried it seemed we became one person, on this day your beloved died...this day in the early hours of the morning, when everything changed for the worst...I miss the love of your life so very much and can only hope that you are reunited, as one day we all must be...you are my love and my life and i remain your mama
March 11, 2014
YOU my dearest Sammy...I love you so very much..we are all honoring you from afar as the Sam Vincent Foundation, your Evan's dream vision takes flight my love. I remember picking you up from Santa Rosa, after your inspiring time working alongside of all those great Chefs..When I saw you for the first time that evening you walked into the room with such confidence radiating from your whole being..I remember you saying, "You know Mom, I didn't know if I'd like it" I asked,"What, Santa Rosa?" And you said, "No cooking alongside those Chefs" When I asked you, well did you? And you said with such excitement, "I LOVED IT!" Your passionate purpose had become REAL! And here you are wearing a Chef jacket for the first time, almost 15 years old, but looking so much older, so happy...I so miss you sweet Sammy, every moment of every day..I so miss hearing that excitement of your passionate purpose,when you'd talk to me about what you had cooked on our rides home from the many fine restaurants you worked at..I miss that you never got to realize your dreams of opening your own restaurant, touring with Power to Australia and beyond and that I can no longer feel you wrap your arms around me with your enormous loving hugs..I know another deep dream was to be with your Arlene, I can only hope that dream has come true..for one day I will join you both and all the friends and family who now reside everywhere and in everything..YOU are my life and my love, and I remain your Mama
February 14, 2014
Every breathing moment I miss you my beautiful son, my Sam..I hope you and your amazing Arlene are having a very special "date nite"...I love you so very, very much Sammy..you are my life and my love...your mama
December 26, 2013
I am missing you so very much, there is no relief from this constant sorrow..there is distraction but not relief...it doesn't get "easier" it only gets harder as each day turns into night and then night turns into yet another day...i just wanted to tell you i love you, i love you, i love you sweet sammy...i love you,mama
December 25, 2013
my dearest sweet sammy...you loved christmas so..and i miss and love you so much..today is just another lonely 24 hours without you my love...you are my love and my life, your mama
December 21, 2013
my dearest sammy,bringing light to you on this longest night of the year,the twenty-first of december on this winter solstice...remembering our many winter solstices together, singing, lighting candles for each other and our deep, deep love....you are my love and my life my sweet sammy, always your mama
December 7, 2013
my dearest sammy, it was so very cold when i visited you today..i wanted to cover your bed with the warmth of a blanket but all i could do was to light candles surrounding you and cherry incense,your favorite fruit, hoping somehow they would keep you warm and feel as if i was still there as i drove away to return to our home...i miss you so very,very much and love you even more...you are my life and my love, your mama
December 1, 2013
with so much LOVE my sweet Sam, you are my life and my love, your mama
you always loved to feed everyone with such passion and purpose
November 28, 2013
Such an extra hard day today, i was thinking of our last thanksgiving together and the fierce and beautiful feast and the family of friends but mostly I was thinking of YOU...NEVER MORE THANKFUL THAN FOR YOU..I miss you and love you with every breath i take my sweet Sammy...always your mama
November 7, 2013
sweet sammy, lucinda williams was right, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED...and now it's all wrong..the only right thing is you are with your beloved, you've gotta be..but my love you both should be HERE!
Missing you with every breath, just want to awaken from this intolerable nightmare...you are my love and my life my sammy...always your mama
November 6, 2013
while watering the garden at our home i had an overwhelming feeling to talk with you and thought i should go inside and call you..and then i remembered that was impossible now..whenever 2pm comes around on a saturday i think i will be still taking you to work at the restaurant and when the evening comes i have the strongest urge to pick you up from your long day of cooking...sometimes i just forget, so many years of you being here with me and now never to be here again..i don't think i can take it in completely, so sometimes the truth... it just trickles in, and other times it's as if someone turned the faucet on full blast and that's when i am the most paralyzed from this nightmare called reality..i love you so very much and you will always be my love and my life my dearest boy, my sam...always your mama
maura s
November 5, 2013
i love you gigi, i still read these entries. i understand that this is a deeply private and special place for you and i thank you for allowing us to remain apart of your life and your grief. today i thought of sam, in a dr. suess book, of all places, reading with a youngster "SAM-I-AM," he still enters my songs, and I also included him into my Dia De Los Muertos altar. We honor him, with our memories. your friend and his friend,
November 3, 2013
We gathered to bring love to you my beautiful sammy and your beloved arlene yesterday and until the sky turned into darkness we sat together, bringing your favorite foods and drink and adding to the altar the loves who had gone before you and also the ones who have followed you...we will be reunited, we have to..i miss and love you deeply with every breath..so much love, so much pain, your mama
from the moment you chose me as your mama through eternity, you have my LOVE my sweet, beautiful Sammy....your mama
September 21, 2013
September 21, 2013
Today, twenty-four years ago was THE most glorious day of my life here on earth, the day you my sweet Sammy was born. I will be sitting by your bed, where we laid you down, at the precise time of your birth those twenty-four years ago,and sing happy birthday to you, just as I did every September 21st. I hope you will be able to hear me. We will gather for you my beautiful Sammy and then return back to your childhood home to eat your favorite food sushi and Dad and Susan will bring baklava for dessert. To this day I await for you to show up, knowing in my mind that will never happen, but in my shattered heart I so want it to happen. I love you so deeply and miss everything about your beautiful being.
You remain my LOVE and my LIFE and always will my amazing, beautiful Sammy and I once again I long for the day we will be reunited. With so much LOVE, your mama
July 29, 2013
Cutting the grass on your bed at Piedmont with scissors..listening to Townes,the dog is curled up in the shade..and i am here with you, tending your garden,feeling your love..and knowing this is all i can do now, you are still my love and my life my dearest Sammy..i have so much love for you and miss you so beyond words.. your mama
July 23, 2013
my dearest Sammy, when i can no longer be heavily distracted, my being forces me into a quiet place where i can not move and i am once again in touch with the immense grief i carry within me at all times. It is in this quiet state that i can really hear what my spirit is saying, what my obliterated heart is feeling. I realize I have to visit this place and pay attention to what is really going on without distraction of everything else, which has no meaning or purpose. I yearn to be beside you once again, to feel your warmth, your beautiful unconditional love. I hear you tell me you love me, just as you did so often throughout your life here.
I love you so my beautiful Sammy, you are my life and my love, your mama
July 3, 2013
Sam, my dreams aren't nightmares when you appear, but I wake up in fear and confusion. Your presence is everywhere, no matter how far I stray. It still hasn't registered that you are gone. I hope it never does.
you, my sweet sammy are my love and my life. i love you so, your mama
June 21, 2013
May 29, 2013
every moment,into the endless days and dark lonely nights i think of you with so much love and pain. you are my love and my life my beautiful sammy, this place, this world is so extremely empty without you here... everything i do reminds me of you, so much love,your mama
April 21, 2013
my sweet sammy, i miss you, i miss everything about you, your enormous hugs, your wisdom, your smile, your brilliant cooking, your love for your yaya and your unconditional love and friendship. i miss you so very much.
and in those moments when i realize that you have died i feel as if a dagger has pierced through my chest, i have to catch my breath and i ache all over. it is too unbelievable that you are gone from this earth. i sometimes feel you coming up the sidewalk, imagine you walking through the gate, wrapping your loving arms around me and telling me, as you did so often, i love you mom. but the nightmare continues and being at piedmont or at our home is all i can do, all that is left for me to do on this earth.
you are my love and my life sweet sammy and i remain your mama.
April 6, 2013
for your beautiful arlene my sweet sammy.so hoping that you both saw this on april 1st when we all gathered, it remains in the garden at home, always present, always sending so much love to both of you. and once again i am reminded that april 1st marks the beginning of the end, and the hole in our hearts just got bigger. this intolerable sadness is so constant. you are my love and my life and i miss and love you so terribly much, your mama
remembering your annual outing with your dad and celebrating st. patrick's day and your love for each other. we miss you so my love, your mama
March 17, 2013
Liz Friend
March 4, 2013
You write so beautifully of your dear boy. I remember running into you two in Arles....
March 3, 2013
when asked what you and i did for the first two years of your life we spent together, i summed it up as "we are watching the fig leaves grow" for you my sweet sammy and i were so content just being together. that never changed, our journey to europe together was another example of "watching the fig leaves grow" though i summed that time together as "memories to fill my heart for a lifetime". i feel amputated by your death my love and alien in a world i no longer recognize. you are my life and my love from the very beginning and into this great darkness.
i love you my sweet sam, YOU are the best thing that ever happened to me, your mama
your most precious "date night"
February 14, 2013
my sweet sam, i know if both of you were here you'd be having another precious date night, and even though you didn't believe in valentine's day, you did believe in love and you both loved each other so very much...so as i visit with you at piedmont i will be thinking of your date night together, where ever you are and missing you both so very, very much..you are my life and my love my dearest sammy...and i so love you, your mama
January 28, 2013
my sweet sam, just returned from piedmont where i came upon a young couple sitting on the steps near your bed. they were kind and said they didn't know you but stopped because your place is so very beautiful and how very loved you are. as soon as they walked on i began to cry, which you probably already know. the garden that surrounds you is so very beautiful and you are so very loved, which even folks passing by can see and it makes me so extremely sad for my love that is just not enough for me or for all that love you.
you are my life and my love,and i long to be with you once again, your mama
remembering your beautiful escher tattoo and beautiful you...you are my love and my life, your mama
January 10, 2013
Logan Montana
January 3, 2013
can't start, let alone be done. greatest friend I've ever known, even in the few years we spent. may sound silly on computers, but here i am. its late, and here i am, on a silly computer, looking at the same photo i look at every night. that bandanna means the world to me.. i don't go a day without a thought of our memories, ever. I'll see you soon gege..
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