Loving Memory 2016

Pipke 

 May 25, 1995 - September 14, 2009. 

Your 

Oma

Seven years!

All I know is since you've been gone

I feel like I'm drowning in a river

Drowning in a river of tears

I wished that I could hold you

*One more time to ease the pain

 
PS: *link. 

What a New Year's Wish is this?

I am sure, this will be a question that comes to your mind, after reading this post.

Yes folks, I'm not at all the kind of writer that writes 'masterpieces', I just let my thought go their free rein and put them on virtual paper.
I also doubt if putting a question mark in a title is correct, perhaps it's not done.
So - I leave it up to you to define what this is.

Anyhow, it comes straight from my heart, and before going further, I want to wish you all a 'Happy New Year' with the hope that you will have many blessings in the year to come.

- I started the new year with running in the early morning, just after dawn.

I was whole alone on the road, it seemed as if everyone else was sleeping off his whirl from yesterday evening.

- I myself - had nothing to celebrate yesterday. I went early to bed, I only awoke '*around midnight' because of the noise of the fireworks here in the neighborhood.

*That was for me the right time to hug my dear Pipke's 'Golden heart' that I keep under my pillow!

It brought me back to the time that she was still alive, then we took her indoors to prevent that she would become afraid for the popping fireworks.

That was the time for hugs and reassurance, such a happy time!

From those happy times I have one picture that's taken 'exactly', on this very day, twenty years ago.

New Year's day 1996! 
In the early morning. 

(As you can see: my sweet little girl could not appreciate to be 'dolled up' for the occasion! She shook it off as quick as possible.

She loved sobriety. She didn't like frills! Pure white was her favorite color. The material of her packing always had to be clean, soft and waterproof.)

However - I don't think that I will ever be able 'to celebrate' a New Year.

No! Celebrations - of what kind so ever - are no longer wasted on me.

Actually, the world wherein we live now, it makes me sad!

There's too much hunger for too many of us. Not 'the hunger' in the real sentence of the word, but - the kind of hunger where Mother Teresa once referred to!

For all who's hungry, I hope you will be fed today!

If not, *this message is intended to you.

Let this be your New Year's *resolution for the year 2016:

 let No-One be hungry again. 
*It is surely mine!

I wish you all the very best!

Fran 

PS: for those who don't know it. 

Pipke's 'Golden heart' is the little urn with her ashes, in the shape of a heart.