afterglow

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Lilli Day aka bookbabie

The party for my mom’s memorial was Saturday and we had a wonderful time. We had over ninety people at the open house and we were fortunate to see friends and family from far and wide that we don’t often get to see anymore. We caught up on each others lives, looked at photos and videos, and it was very healing to hear people say so many kind things about my mom.

The day before the gathering I had asked my dad if he was looking forward to the party and he said no, he was afraid that it would be too emotional, that there would be too many “sobbing people”. I reassured him that it wasn’t going to be that kind of memorial and it wasn’t. While a few tears were shed, there was mostly laughter and hugs as we all came together to honor my mother’s seventy-four years of a life well lived. The photo above is of my sister Carrie and her daughters, Emily and Jenny, and their little dog Lola. They flew in all the way from warm sunny San Diego so we ordered them up some snow for Sunday…the day after the party;)

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. ~Robert Frost

skywatch friday

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Lilli Day aka bookbabie

Mr. bookbabie took this one on a business trip recently.

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity. ~ Berenice Abbott

(almost) wordless wednesday

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Lilli Day aka bookbabie

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.

~ Robert Fulghum

vote ’08

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Lilli Day aka bookbabie

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point. ~ Sir Winston Churchill

skywatch friday

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Lilli Day aka bookbabie

I dreamt this sky and green field, although my attempt to recreate it falls a bit short, it was much more vivid and beautiful. The entire scene was draped in a misty sunlit rain that was falling both down and up, very cool:)

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. ~ Carl Gustav Jung

wordless wednesday

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Lilli Day aka bookbabie

Took this photo last October with my Canon G9 on a country road near my home. Check out other Wordless Wednesday participants here.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus

PKD Walk

Posted on September 21, 2008 by Lilli Day aka bookbabie

Some pics from the PKD Walk on Saturday. We had perfect September weather and the volunteers did a great job organizing everything. Some of the walkers had kidney disease themselves, some walked for family members and friends with it, and others walked in memory of a life lost to kidney disease as we did. That’s Meagan’s mom Debbie next to Andy, Meagan, me, and Doug (a.k.a. Mr. bookbabie) holding pinwheels with Kylie’s name on them. We raised over $1,200 in just two weeks, thanks to all of you who donated! It was so inspiring to see so many people get together to make something positive out of adversity and heartbreak:)

It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

birthday blues

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Lilli Day aka bookbabie

This Sunday is my birthday and it’s going to be a rather bittersweet one. Our first grandchild was due last Sunday, on Grandparents Day, so I was hoping to be holding my first grandchild on my birthday this year. But during a routine ultrasound this past spring my daughter-in-law’s doctor discovered that the baby had Bilateral Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney Disease and because her tiny kidney’s were failing, she was unable to make enough amniotic fluid to sustain the pregnancy. Our son and daughter-in-law named the baby Kylie Nicole and we are walking in the PKD walk to help raise money for kidney disease on Septmeber 20th. Our granddaughter’s kidney disease was similar to Polycystic Kidney Disease which is one of the most common life threatening, genetic, diseases affecting an estimated 12.5 million people worldwide. In fact, PKD is more common than Down syndrome, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia – combined. If you would like to learn more about PKD, or support Meagan and Andy, please click on this link or on the PKD Foundation logo at the top of this post.

… joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. ~Kahlil Gibran