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Nem5 Web Maggic Awards Program April 2002 Winners
No awards were granted during April 2002 in remembrance of Mary Gunn.
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Mary Lou Elkins-Gunn
November 30, 1940 - March 24, 2002
• • •Dear Mom,
My memories of you are so deep and so dear that I realize the precious gift I received when you created me and gave me life. You always took such pride in and received such joy from the gardens you raised. I can't help but smile as I think of the way your eyes lit up when you talked of your tomatoes or your latest flowerbed. I have many wonderful memories of time spent with you nurturing a tiny plant until it became a thing of beauty bursting with blossoms or fruit that not only filled the stomach, but also made life seem more real and simply better because of its existence.
Over 44 years ago, you began a garden of life that you tended and nurtured every day for the rest of your own life. Every tiny leaf, every fragile blossom that burst forth from your own garden of life was shown off with pride and assured of the love of its mother. You raised your garden with gentle care and depth of passion that breathed life into your fruit and gave us the belief that we could grow into anything we wanted as long as we trusted in ourselves. We also trusted you. We had and we have faith in you and in life because of your loving care.
We have each gone on to create our own gardens of life, but our roots will ever stem from the life giving foundation of your boundless love. Your love is the source of yet other gardens... gardens that are more precious than life... because they are the source of our lives. These gardens will ever grow within our hearts and give us joy in the memories that will blossom with life for as long as we (your garden) shall live.
You were my first and my greatest teacher. You taught me to live, to love, to grow and to nurture. I'm still learning Mom. I'm learning the sadness, fear and pain of losing my own source of life, my mother. I've begun to see how nurturing a garden of love... resting in my heart... a place set aside especially for you... will ease the fear and pain of this loss.
You are right here, in my heart, a part of who I am... and here you shall have a home for as long as I have yet to live, to love, and to nurture my own garden of life.
Thank you, Mom. Thank you for your love, your care and for my life. Thank you for showing me how to take a tiny seed and turn it into something beautiful with time and care and love. I miss you so much, Mom. Yet, I know you are here with me and ever shall be.
Always your...
Maggi
3-25-2002
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