Post 8 for week 8 of 2019. A new venture.
A few years back, a friend’s mother died, and I wrote a short little memorial as a way to honor her. Then about a year later my mom died, and I started thinking about what I could do with that prose.
“Love stops us cold, and memories keep us warm…”
After our loved one’s death, we keep their memory alive in in our hearts in many different ways. One of those is in pictures. We spend hours journeying through photo albums reliving snippets of life and happy celebrations. We gently trace their face with our finger and look into their smiling eyes one more time. We do our best to tuck the joy of their laugh down deep in our hearts so we can recall it when we’re extra lonely and missing them when we’re having a bad day.
I still have days when I hear something or see something and think “I need to call mom and tell her about this”, then I remember. She’s beyond the reach of my voice and I’ll never again hear her say through the crackly land line, “when are you coming to see me?”
I won’t get to eat her famous biscuits anymore. No one could make them like she could. Her way of saying she loved you was to offer to fix you a plate of food.
So, anyway, I got to thinking. I wanted to try and marry my prose with a photo and make it look extra special. Something to become a keepsake and bring a small measure of comfort.
My youngest daughter is an artist with photoshop. She takes everyday words and pictures and turns them into jaw-dropping art. So that’s what she did. I know that if my momma were still alive, she’d be very proud of her granddaughter’s labor of love, just as I am.
We’d love to make one for you, too. All you have to do is ask.
