[Oe List ...] Ann Harrison Avery

[Judith Hamje]

Desmond
A beautiful poem written by a beautiful woman inside and out. Blessings to
you and your family.
JuditaPaz(aka Judith Hamje)

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 10:42 AM Sarah Buss via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> What a lovely memorial poem Ann has given us with which to remember her.
> Thank you Ann. Blessings Desmond. 🙏 Sarah
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Oct 7, 2022, at 7:24 AM, William Schlesinger via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> Part of me just stopped.  Ann lent me her car to pick up Carol at the
> airport -
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> Bill Schlesinger
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> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 5:45 AM Ken Fisher via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
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>> Desmond,
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>> Deepest condolences.
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>> With love for Ann.
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>> Ken
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>> On Oct 7, 2022, at 7:24 AM, PAUL SCHRIJNEN via OE <
>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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>> Desmond Avery writes:
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>> *Ann Harrison Avery, 16 December 1940 -  25 September 2022*
>> Full of gratitude for Ann’s life, we sang ‘For all the the saints’ at her
>> funeral in our local church in rural England the day before yesterday. The
>> church was full, and everybody knew the tune.  In his eulogy Paul Schrijnen
>> read this poem Ann had written one previous October:
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>> *Autumn Joy*
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>> * I like to shuffle through the leaves*
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>> *yellow and brown*
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>> *     Beauty all over the ground. *
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>> *I could just keep on looking down. But then I look up at the branches
>> Where the last leaves linger just a few days longer still some green with
>> yellow and gold each tree different black trunk's shape showing through as
>> the tree undresses gradually. Soon it will stand, stark naked against the
>> sky. *
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>> *I remember autumns in other times and other places. - Red maples in a
>> Toronto cemetery, - Virginia creeper in Geneva as scarlet as in Wellingore
>> - Red sumac in Chattanooga on a red-clay lot as it is now on our green
>> garden - A golden forest in a park south of Paris. *
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>> *My mother's birthday is in October - is that why I love autumn? Or is
>> it, that I love the fact, that the colours are always present in the leaf
>> Hidden beneath the chlorophyll, And the idea that the colours of our lives
>> are always within us, waiting to blaze forth as the greenness of youth
>> recedes?*
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>> The colours are doing just that here now.
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