GrandMollie farewell

My Aunt Mollie, known to many as "GrandMollie" died on Thursday at 6:20pm. My cousin had called me an hour earlier and said "I don't think she will live another hour, maybe two" and exactly an hour later she took her last breath with Anna on one side and me on the other, being quiet, being in almost a quiet shock although it wasn't a "shock" - she had been on her journey for awhile. Made me think about so many loved ones passed over - Rick, Mammy, Sandy, Eve, Tara Singh, Bear Heart, Aunt Patsy, Aunt Ellen, grandparents all, Louie, Andrew Nagen, Dr. Zonnis, Marty Paskind,... just in the past decade. I feel so blessed to still have both parents alive.

Although "Grandmollie" had many hours days weeks and years with Eric, she loved him. His first school bus ride was from her front yard in Sky View Acres. Aunt Mollie was a superhero,but her flowers, paintings, poetry, and artistic creative self was something. She could also fix anything, roof, whatever - when you don't have money, you figure out how to do these things. Anyway, I will miss her, although I've really missed her for the last 10 years since she moved away from here... and we grew more and more distant as years went by. I always asked about her, knew what was going on in her life, but just quit talking to her for no other reason except that we lost touch.  When she was here, we would talk about everything under the sun, religion, spirit, flowers, children, her experiences, she would share her writings, and we would sit and drink tea for hours. We would go into her bedroom to see her new dress, or try on lipstick, silly stuff... or just lay on the bed and talk about things.