My Mother Passed Away Tonight....

Joe, my heart goes out to you. I see you're being very strong and remembering the good times, that is what she would want. Hearing about your Mom and seeing her picture really touched me.

One thing you probably have considered is that before she passed she saw you triumph over tough times and find a great new job.

I searched online for the Irish poem that always comforts me; strangely I could not find it. But I did discover this one:

Say not in grief that she is no more
but say in thankfulnes that she was
a death is not the extinguishing of a light
but the putting out of the lamp
because the dawn has come.