Moving on

Good visit with my deceased sister-in-law last night.

She had one of her children there with her, though I did not actually ‘see’ the child, I knew the child was there. (Makes me wonder if my sister-in-law miscarried a baby.) My sister-in-law had moved to a new place, where I went to visit her. It was strange, in that it sat on water. I had to walk through a bit of water and then cross a rickety deck to get in to her place. It was tricky. I wondered why…

My sister-in-law and I sat at a table and had a good talk. At one point, she looked at me and asked “Who ARE you?” I knew she knew that I was Sue. But she was asking something more.

I answered her, “I am your sister-in-law and I love you always.”

She smiled and relaxed at this. In life, we had never been too sure of each other’s feeling for the other. Perhaps because of outside interference…

A small crystal bowl sat on the table in front of her. I noticed a crystal rosary was in the bowl with the cross and first few beads spilled out over the edge. I told her, “I’m so happy to see that you have the rosary with you. Say it often.”

I also asked her if she was familiar with the divine chaplet. She said no. “I’ll bring it to you next time,” I told her. “You say it on your rosary beads but it’s a different prayer and very beautiful.” I wondered if she would do the spoken prayer or the sung version.

We also spoke of her and my brother’s love for one another. She is beginning to understand, and accept, the real reason they divorced.

I’m glad we met and resolved things between us and that she is moving on peacefully. I will always love her and miss her.

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As a toddler, Sue Baumgardner made up stories for herself looking at books she could not read and later spun tales for her younger sisters. After she had her own children, she told them tales and eventually wove a new pattern into the fabric of their lives. As the three sat together, one would begin with a story idea of her own. She spoke perhaps a paragraph or two or three, then pointed to the next who would take up the thread and continue with her own evolution of the story line passed to her, until she pointed to the next. The third person wove her own ideas into the story progression. After the three each had a turn, anyone could end the story, in their turn, whenever it felt complete to them. After her children were adults, Sue studied writing, first poetry and then prose. After six semesters in adult education, she was thoroughly hooked on the story art form. Sue continued with dozens of classes, seminars and writing retreats. She studied writing and publishing under the likes of James Patterson, Peter Behrens, and Mark Dawson. As a contributor to the Discover Maine Magazine, Sue received her first check for her prose. Her poetry has been published in The Aurorian. She has six of her paperbacks along with four ebooks published. They include fiction and nonfiction for adults and fiction for Middle Readers. Her very first publishing though began with Greeting Card Universe, where Sue’s greeting cards with verse are sold across the world.

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