Give a Cheer
This is my project for the Swirlydoos Round Robin Challenge. My mission was to lift Manda-K's Sleeping Beauty layout.
I've been participating in Project 365 this year - sort of. I don't scrap 7 pictures every week. I choose one. This was the photo that I wanted to scrap up for last week. It's a picture of Claire House - the hospice center where my sister-in-law spent her last week. Tom and I were blessed to be with her and his brother for her last moments. I went outside and took this photo a couple of minutes later. Her body is resting in the last lighted room on the left - the one with the little square windows above the door.
The journaling is by Henry Van Dyke and reads....
I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white
sails to the morning breeze and starts
for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until at length
she hangs like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky come
to mingle with each other.
Then, someone at my side says;
"There, she is gone!"
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight. That is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull
and spar as she was when she left my side
and she is just as able to bear her
load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at the moment when someone
at my side says, "There, she is gone!"
There are other eyes watching her coming,
and other voices ready to take up the glad
shout;
"Here she comes!"
Everything on the page is Swirly stuff. I stuck the timepiece behind the black tulle as a symbolic representation of the concept of time. When your loved one is dying, there is never enough time to spend with them, each moment speeds by so fast, there is so much you want to say. But at the end, time ceases to matter for them, and for you, it's like a veil, semi hidden, not really gone, but out of reach, until the moment that you can rejoin them.
No products have been added to this project.
Thanks for spreading positivity!
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