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My Sister's Take on the Weekend
Sep. 19th, 2012 02:54 pmMy sister posted in her fb the following:
An update for you who couldn't be with us for my moms memorial weekend. All went well with the hike up Mt Monadnock. The weather couldn’t have been better..Gigi ran up in bare feet, as she repacked her suite case and took out the sneakers I put in!! Madeleine and her friend looked like they were going out on the town , not up a mountain and were very mad at me that it was such a BIG adventure…. all taken in stride we managed to accomplish something beautiful with lots of memories too. We, unannounced to everyone else there, let moms ashes blow away over the mountain on a non populated side up top..it was unscripted and lovely. There were 15 of us and the weather was glorious. The memorial on Sunday was really a celebration of her life and the party that should have ended at 5pm went on until 9pm!! My sister Persis out did herself and had some friends work the whole thing. There were many pictures of mom during her lifetime scattered around the flat and Persis made a few nice boards with more photos and old newspaper clippings from her coming out days in Harvard Square. There was an abundance of delicious and amazing food and plenty of wine and scotch (mom’s old favorite) then Jimmy and Larry (a brother of Jimmy’s up from Philadelphia) played the grand piano and guitar and entertained us all before moving out to the porch to sing more old favorites as you can imagine. About 90 people came from all different times of Moms life. Many people told memories and I kept hearing in those stories a common theme; food, and how she introduced so many to the enjoyment of fine food..I saw many friends and quite a few from my past who mean a lot to me but have been out of touch with..I am very grateful for my life and good fortune....oh, and thanks for all the birthday wishes
Today I am working on PISA, and have a massive sinus headache that is making me feel very spacey. I think this is a nice summation of the weekend. Leslie does not know that my friends and I are used to entertaining on the grand scale... Mum taught me well to carry on her great tradition of throwing awesome parties. :-) Ah, well...
An update for you who couldn't be with us for my moms memorial weekend. All went well with the hike up Mt Monadnock. The weather couldn’t have been better..Gigi ran up in bare feet, as she repacked her suite case and took out the sneakers I put in!! Madeleine and her friend looked like they were going out on the town , not up a mountain and were very mad at me that it was such a BIG adventure…. all taken in stride we managed to accomplish something beautiful with lots of memories too. We, unannounced to everyone else there, let moms ashes blow away over the mountain on a non populated side up top..it was unscripted and lovely. There were 15 of us and the weather was glorious. The memorial on Sunday was really a celebration of her life and the party that should have ended at 5pm went on until 9pm!! My sister Persis out did herself and had some friends work the whole thing. There were many pictures of mom during her lifetime scattered around the flat and Persis made a few nice boards with more photos and old newspaper clippings from her coming out days in Harvard Square. There was an abundance of delicious and amazing food and plenty of wine and scotch (mom’s old favorite) then Jimmy and Larry (a brother of Jimmy’s up from Philadelphia) played the grand piano and guitar and entertained us all before moving out to the porch to sing more old favorites as you can imagine. About 90 people came from all different times of Moms life. Many people told memories and I kept hearing in those stories a common theme; food, and how she introduced so many to the enjoyment of fine food..I saw many friends and quite a few from my past who mean a lot to me but have been out of touch with..I am very grateful for my life and good fortune....oh, and thanks for all the birthday wishes
Today I am working on PISA, and have a massive sinus headache that is making me feel very spacey. I think this is a nice summation of the weekend. Leslie does not know that my friends and I are used to entertaining on the grand scale... Mum taught me well to carry on her great tradition of throwing awesome parties. :-) Ah, well...