Another full day since the funeral yesterday, and still we have yet to unpack iyt all love, SAm -----Original Message----- From: Sam Eden <[log in to unmask]> To: carol whiting <[log in to unmask]>; Brooke Webb <[log in to unmask]>; Bridget/Bonnie Bellesfield <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Friday, March 03, 2000 12:01 AM Subject: MIDNIGHT REQUIEM FOR MY MOTHER >Far flung freinds, > >My mother, Coleen Back Eden, 61 literally breathed her last at 649 PM on >Monday, Feb 28, 2000 after 14 days in Hardin Memorial Hospital in >Elizabethtown,KY.I was there for perhaps a dozen of the last 72 hours of her >life, including being the first in the crowded room to recognize her >passing. > 200 peopl attended her funeral at 11 AM and some 300 had attended >the visitation held the night before. I am exhausted emotionally, mentally >and spiritually at the sher pace of recent events.8-10 people have been in >the house and as many as 20 have been regularly and recurringly on hgand for >a mountain of food that asomehoiw built back up no matter hoiw many ravenous >apppetttites sought to chomp it down. Grand Central Station has been a >decidedly more sedate environment in recent days. The protocols of death in >this world are over; reflectionb on my mothers passing has hardly begun. >This last statement is as true for my father and brerother and sisters as >for myself. >Please be in prayer for me and my family as we unwind and unwrap in the days >and months ahead. I will post more specifics latter, but I must last head >bedward for the moment. > >blessings and thanksgiving, > >sce > >