Jenny kiss’d me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss’d me,
Say I’m growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss’d me.
Leigh Hunt
What do you want your obituary to say? Have you ever really thought about it? I suppose mine will I was a child psychologist and daughter of so and so and the wife of so many years but what else? I have to confess. I’m having a severe case of obit-envy this morning. I thought I should come clean.
It is with great sadness we announce the passing of
Marie Elizabeth Somers, 75 years of Springhill Canada.
Okay it starts out pretty ordinary I’ll admit. We should all expect something like this, But then the magic happens and we realize Marie was an no ordinary woman and we should be in awe of her memory forever.
Marie enjoyed spending her days at the Pit Pond, feeding
Chewie, her pet beaver. She was a kind and giving soul, always lending
a helping hand. She worked hard her entire life, eventually retiring
from her position as a postal worker at Canada Post. She was a devoted
mother and grandmother who loved her grandchildren dearly Marie loved
nature and animals, and was particularly fond of her dog,
Muffin.
How did you ever come to have a pet beaver? Did you rehab it? What is pit pond, did you make it? Oh, I want a pet beaver! I want a pond! I want a dog named muffin! Oh Marie I have a million questions for you that can never be answered now but I have learned that there is only one way to truly live in this world and that’s by loving nature and animals and feeding beavers at the pond.
We love your gentle spirit Marie, and wish you to rest in peace. I hope you son looks in on Chewie now and then.
Meanwhile I have been evolving my climate tarot idea into a stamp collecting idea for the beaver festival. I found a cute company in Portland that can make custom stamps and have been chatting with a nice man whose title is the “Vice Perforater” which made me laugh very hard and might be the best job description ever and now am thinking kids will get a bookmark and collect Erika’s great drawings as stamps to fill up the back all about ways beaver can help us manage as our climate changes.
Looks like fun, eh?
