[Dialogue] Celebrating Life, Celebrating Abe

[Norm and Judy Lindblad]

Thank you for being there with Mary Lou and for sharing your caring
thoughts, Best, Judy


> [Original Message]
> From: aiseayew <aiseayew at iowatelecom.net>
> To: Colleague Dialogue <Dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
> Date: 8/29/2004 1:45:10 PM
> Subject: [Dialogue] Celebrating Life, Celebrating Abe
>
>
> Dear Jan,
>
> I got home early this morning from Chicago having spent the last four days
> with Mary Lou Peterson planning her end-of-life celebration which is not
far
> off.  I slept a bit and opened my e-mail to the avalanch of messages.  I
> don't know what I can add other than that my candle is lit.  Since I work
> nights, I often feel like there is a special guardian role to be played by
> the one sending night energy, praying that my colleagues arrive well
rested
> with the dawn.
>
> I finally closed my e-mail and took off for a family pot-luck in town. 
When
> my dad came over to talk with me I told him I needed a hug and all about
Abe
> and work we had done together and about our incredible connectedness
through
> the e-mail that was largely his doing and certainly his sustaining gift to
> us.  I told Dad about taking his name off the list of list managers and
all
> the places people had responded from.  Tears rolled down his cheeks as
they
> rolled down mine.
>
> He hugged me again and said he had never imagined a global internet wake,
> but it sounded like that is what we had done.  He had never imagined that
in
> such dispersion people could be so connected and claimed it as a new gift
of
> our times.  I certainly felt gifted, again, that Abe stories and Abe and
Jan
> stories and our connectedness could spark his imagination far beyond where
> mine had gone.
>
> Thanks be to God, once more, for our gatekeeper, Abe.
> Blessings, Jan, on the journey ahead.
>
> Awa ng Dios,
> Margaret Aiseayew
>
>
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