<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">What a lovely memorial poem Ann has given us with which to remember her. Thank you Ann. Blessings Desmond. š Sarah <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 7, 2022, at 7:24 AM, William Schlesinger via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">ļ»æ<div dir="ltr">Part of me just stopped. Ann lent me her car to pick up Carol at the airport - <div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Bill Schlesinger</div><div>Project Vida</div><div>3607 Rivera Avenue</div><div>El Paso, TX 79905</div><div>(915) 490-6148 Cell</div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 5:45 AM Ken Fisher via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div>Desmond,</div><div><br></div>Deepest condolences.<div><br></div><div>With love for Ann.</div><div><br></div><div>Ken<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 7, 2022, at 7:24 AM, PAUL SCHRIJNEN via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:ArialMT">Desmond Avery writes:</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:ArialMT"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:ArialMT"><u>Ann Harrison Avery, 16 December 1940 - 25 September 2022</u></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:ArialMT">Full of gratitude for Annās life, we sang āFor all the the saintsā 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:</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:ArialMT"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:ArialMT">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:36pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i>Autumn Joy<u></u><u></u></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><br>
I like to shuffle through the leaves</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i>yellow and brown</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> Beauty all over the ground.<br>
<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i>I could just keep on looking down.<br>
But then I look up at the branches<br>
Where the last leaves linger<br>
just a few days longer<br>
still some green with yellow and gold<br>
each tree different<br>
black trunk's shape showing through<br>
as the tree undresses gradually.<br>
Soon it will stand, stark naked against the sky.<br>
<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i>I remember autumns in other times and other places.<br>
- Red maples in a Toronto cemetery,<br>
- Virginia creeper in Geneva as scarlet as in Wellingore<br>
- Red sumac in Chattanooga on a red-clay lot as it is now on our green garden<br>
- A golden forest in a park south of Paris.<br>
<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i>My mother's birthday is in October - is that why I love autumn?<br>
Or is it, that I love the fact, that the colours are always present in the leaf<br>
Hidden beneath the chlorophyll, <br>
And the idea that the colours of our lives are always within us,<br>
waiting to blaze forth as the greenness of youth recedes?</i><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:ArialMT"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72pt;text-indent:36pt"><br></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:ArialMT">The colours are doing just that here now.</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>OE mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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