<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you so much, Desmond, for sharing Ann's poem--it took me to a new place. I remember Ann who I knew only a little but remember her grace.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Diann McCabe</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 1:45 PM Isobel and Jim 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 dir="auto">Dear Desmond, <div>Jim and I send our sincerest condolences to you in the loss of your beloved Ann. </div><div>A beautiful tribute she has left in her Poem. </div><div>May you find comfort in your memories and through the support and love of family and friends. </div><div>With love, </div><div>Isobel Bishop </div><div> <br><br><div dir="ltr">Isobel Bishop<div>Mob. 0412 129 425</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 7 Oct 2022, at 10:25 pm, PAUL SCHRIJNEN via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><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 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:</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><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>OE mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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