Friday, October 5, 2007

The family says goodbye......

10:30am on October 5th our extended family said good bye to their dear Wendy. "DeDe" was an amazing Flautist and a fighter until the end. Wendy had been sick for some time and although I probably would have not known her if I passed her on the street, Karoline has spoke of her so often in my lifetime that I was somewhat connected to her in some cosmic way.
Wendy fought long and hard during her illness and I know that at one time she played her flute when she should not have been able to get out of bed. Karoline said that it was absolutely incredible.

We wish the P-C and the Layman families the best and they are in our thoughts today.
"Every music lover is familiar with the sound of the flute,
which seems to possess a magic power that
emanates from its innermost being.
It speaks, it moves, it entrances, almost as if it had been revealed
to us on the glorious day of creation.
And yet it is genuine human expression,
an element of language, the image of a dream continually repeated."


--Meylan, in The Flute, p.9

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"DE-DE" Will never again need her glasses to see the appels on the trees.

Anonymous said...

hey coz..thank for the special note for Dede. There is no screen for ovarian cancer and most women are diagnosed in either stage 3 or 4 and most don't live past 5 years with it. Fight for money to be put toward a screening for ovarian cancer a huge killer of our women. Wendy leaves two children, Ben and Marilla. The last few weeks of her life she spent one on one time with Marilla (her daughter) trying to fill her with guidance for the rest of her life. How do you leave a child and feel they are ever READY to go on WITHOUT YOU. I can't imagine. Love, Karoline