You knowโฆI can still feel your presence whenever I see a butterfly, especially those bright lovely ones.
It was you, isnโt it, Aunty, on that fine morning in early October? You were resting on the front gate for at least fifteen minutes. I was pleasantly surprised by the visit of this lovely butterfly. Its wings were bright yellow and orange at the side and the rest was grey. It looks like a butterfly on a canvas with more painting to be done.
I believe the shades of grey on its wings is a message that there will be storms in this life. And may we find the strength to overcome and feel comforted knowing that no storm will last forever.
I would like to think that your brief visit that day is to show us that youโre still near, thinking about us and watching over us. Itโs also a reminder of the fragile short life we have here on earth.
And one day each of us will leave this earthly life behind and fly away like a butterfly. Another gentle reminder to count life in each and every moment and make the most of it.
I want you to know that seven years on, your spirit is still very much alive in my heart. I remember and will always be grateful for your warm welcome when I visited you (I wish I had visited you more often), for checking in on me when you didnโt hear from me for a while, for sharing your thoughts and opinions, for listening without judgment, but most of all for just being you, a beautiful aunt and friend.
โBe who you are and say what you feel because those who mind donโt matter and those who matter donโt mind.โ
โWe are all a little weird and lifeโs a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.โ
โIโm sorry to say so but, sadly, itโs true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you.โ
โ I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.โ
โWhy fit in when you were born to stand out.โ
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
โFrom there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.โ
โSometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.โ
โYouโll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.โ
โYouโre in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.โ
โASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, โAct swiftly awesome pacyderm!โ
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.โ
โYouโre never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.โ
โThink left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!โ
โDonโt cry because itโs over. Smile because it happened.โ
โLife is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.โ
When Shaye was a toddler, she made me read these books over and over again. And I could never skip any pages. She had memorized every page. Lol!