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99 New: The Memorial Service
So much has happened, this story seems like it was written twenty years ago, not just three. It has an important message for me – maybe for others, too.
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Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
Our friars make a valiant effort to find relatives when someone dies and give the person a proper sendoff. Two years ago we lost a very ill young woman who refused to come in and only felt safe under the highway. The church paid for her hospitalization. One night she came barefoot to the friary in her nightgown. One of the friar’s, heartbroken, went upstairs and gave her his winter coat. I was only able to make eye contact with her because talking scared her. Still I was very sad to learn she had died. Shannon.
That’s a very moving story. And a beautiful example of being present when nothing else will work. Shannon.
Presence is often underrated, but it is a form of love.
This story was so heart warming..
I REALLY enjoyeD iT…
Shorty sounds like she was a good friend to people and an interesting person. I’m so glad she had a proper funeral.
Yes. She was a mother hen – a lot of people loved her.
this was so beautiful and bittersweet, and my, what you gained and learned from this. a final gift from shorty.
Yes. So true.