Lemony Webbles

with love, to Rachel

So here's what I want to say about Rachel (see previous post if you don't know who Rachel is). She was a Quaker who became a Baha'i and has a very interfaith sort of family. She was very smart and very funny. She would make literary references to classics in the course of everyday conversation that would make me wish I had been paying more attention in Humanities class. She had a very loving eye for children and was so kind and caring to everyone- she always called people 'dear'. She has a very powerful spirit, it seems to me, to be able to have such a deep impact on me when I visited her lately- even while she was unconscious! While sitting with her I would wonder to myself what she would want or what she would think of all that was happening. And what I came up with was that she was very brave about it and just too focused on getting to whatever comes after this life to be conscious in this life any more. She was almost there and she wasn't going to miss her chance to go join her husband (who had preceded her) and see what the next world was all about. I imagined her to be really excited and just working really hard on being patient and getting through the end of the whole body thing. And I knew she wouldn't want anyone to be sad or dramatic about it all- just simple and reflective and happy for her. I could hear her in my mind comforting me, 'It's alright dear. I'm fine. Are you ok? Don't worry." I'm sure she's very happy now- reunited with friends and family and welcomed with great joy to her new home.