Last night, I dreamed of several family members who have passed on. I don’t remember many particulars of the dream.
My Dad’s double cousin, Rena Sylvain Tardiff and her husband, Bern, were in the dream. We sat on their back porch which had a lot of fancy brick-work. I knew that Bern must have built this; he was a mason.
I actually went to visit my paternal Grandmother and Grandfather, who lived next door to Rena and Bern.
As Rena, my grandmother and I sat on the back porch, I thought of Dad. I was not sure if Grammy knew yet that Dad had passed on. So I decided I best tell her. She shook her head yes as I told her and Rena said, “Oh, yes.” So I guess they already knew. (Not sure.)
But what caught me quite by surprise was, as I attempted to tell them, I began to cry convulsively. It was most difficult to get the words out. I was surprised by this. I had believed myself to be further along in the healing process than this. And I know he lives, fully in spirit.
But there it is. Perhaps we never really recover from the mourning process until we ourselves pass on and join those in spirit form.
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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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