Prayers and Love to Our Beloved Sprite

Dearest Sprite ~ Please know that we are all thinking of you, sending you love and prayers during this time of grieving. I don't think we could wish anything more than to hope you will be comforted in the same way you comfort and care for others. We Love You.

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Dearest Sprite,
I send you my love.  You are in our prayers and thoughts. 
I dedicate this song to you in this time of grieving,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoWcpafo1Zs

peace, love, and comfort to you and your family and to your beloved sister Andrea,
samme

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A Little Bit of Me

I hope the song is helpful!!!
Is one of my favorites and I kept thinking of it, so I looked for it so I might share it with you.

Maybe dont' watch the video parts :D

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I CAN'T let this go where it might not be seen. Elisa suggested a Wake under the Willow. I would have moved the thread there if I hadn't already set it and told people where it was. As it is, I'm moving the willow and Elisa's beautiful words here. I've always liked the idea of a wake - a celebration of life. Let's all bring some food and a thought or poem or prayer.

This is Peri's Willow Tree from The Backyard.

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thank you dear Winnie and Elisa for setting this up this beautiful “wake” under the willow tree…

I will be back with my offerings… still in shock and grieving with Sprite… many tears!

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COME WHAT MAY


Many tears we have cried
To our loved ones
Who have died
And now another friend
Is grieving
Due to the loss of a
Baby sister
She needs comforting
Although our friendship
Is virtual
I can see no other one
As profound and spiritual
Than the frienships
We have honed
Through the years
Our love have shown
That family is not just
Something you own
A family is something
You do not have  and  yet
They make you their own.
We love
We laugh
We play all the way
Each and everyday
And sometimes we cry
Like now for our friend
Who is mourning
We may have never seen
Each other
But our love is deep as
The deepest river, flowing
Across the mother Gaia
Touching lives and hearts
This is not maya
And yet thru our heartaches
We still learned to transcend
The mundane and the
Transitoriness our lives contain
In our sorrow we still play
Dryad has given us a way
A way of life to live and love
In sorrow we still play
'Cause up above our
Beloved ones come what may
Are dancing together
And saying, look our families
Have gotten together
Thru their virtual friendships
We in heaven
Have come together
And we are looking after them
And will greet them
When it's their time to be here
We will play
As always
Come what may. 


samme s. samareta, april 25, 2008
for sprite, dryad, peri and all our friends here at gaia and play-pod
for our beloved ones up above, we love you, for my dad, i love you, thank you
this is one of those moments when a poem just flows out of me from the divine source

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Sprite and Andrea …
 
music and faeries … and -
a few candle-lights for you under the willow tree … 

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This is so exceptionally beautiful beloved Samme.  The poem that flowed through is beautiful and so is the channel through which the words came. Thank you for this vision. Through it I will say, “I love you” to my Daddy too, and to my big sister who went before me. She waits for me on the shore of a sea I have not yet seen. Some day we will walk there together.

And until then, we will play here together and remember them. And as Sammy has so beautifully said, though we have never seen each other, there is love here, and care. A bigger family to hold your family in the light, in our hearts.

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in gratitude Dryad. Now let us all light a fire and send our whispers of love to heaven
for you sprite for your sister, Andrea, we light up our hearts

with love and light,
samme

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Dear Dear Darling Sprite,

My heart is with you.  My prayers and my deepest sympathy's are with you.  My love is with you.  May your sweet little sister, Andrea, soar with the angels and bring you and your family comfort in this very difficult time. 

My tears mingle with yours, Lovely Sprite.  I am sending you so much love. 

Love, Love, & More Love,  Ayla

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Gooooooooooooooood Morning!!!!!

I've set out blueberry buckwheat waffles, scrambled eggs, assorted melons and fruits, bagels, and a variety of coffee, tea, and juices. 

Feel free to use my morning 'shrine' for any prayers….there is a nice spot behind the tree in the river for morning cleansing..if anyone chooses that :)

May all be blessed with the joy of seeing the new day turn and each new breath given as strength to all humans on this Earth.

love elisa

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Thank you beautiful Elisa for breakfast. I forget to eat when I am grieving. What a blessing that there is someone to lay food, find a still spot in the river for renewing and offer to share their shrine. I have been thinking a great deal about shrines recently. When some of us from Oregon met at Katherine Eveningstar’s home, I was lucky enough to see the shrines she has been building. They were exquisite, so full of spirit and yet open to the earth and the wind moving through. A breath of prayers. I don’t know if that made any sense, but it was the way they felt.

My daughter’s have made shrines for years - of all kinds and all emotions - serious ones, playful ones, spiritual ones, silly ones. I wish I could find the picture of the shrine they made for my Crone Ceremony. Kat had the idea of building shrines together at PLAY-POD. It is an idea I like, particularly the “together” part.  And so, thank you Elisa, I will come at meditate at your morning shrine.

After breakfast and a little rest time - when the dew has come off the grass of the meadow and it starts to fill with sunshine like a bowl of light - I will be going down there to dance. It is a form of devotion that has almost been forgotten in the western world, but it is one of the oldest and most basic; connecting us to both the earth and the spirit. It is the way I first learned to pray. Come and join me. Bring your yoga mat if that is what you do, what you love. The birds are already warming up to be our music. I will think of Sprite while I dance - for there is something about her that is always dancing, a lightness that you can feel. I will think about Sprite and Andrea; about the blessing of sisters ~ those we are born with, and those we find along our path.

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hehehe
i was just coming home from the garage where i help out wondering if anyone would be offended if i offered music and dance….
it is the highest form of glory and praise to my God
it moves great energy
and is free expression

first i will be blowing bubbles full of more expressions to andrea
our ancestors
and any others needing to send them anywhere for any reason
besides it's fun!!

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i hope that by being here, the presence of friends will comfort you.

love and light to you,

shirley

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Transplants baby Flowering Sand Cherry tree from my own yard just for Andrea and Sprite.  I spread some of the tuffa stuff…i forget the right name for it…..out in front of the tree and in a path/walk…..here are buckets of seaglass and recycled trinkets and willing rocks and gems to press into the wet tuffa to mark our words and essences for them both to last as long as the Earth and elements allow!!! :)

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2007 Ryan Velung (borrowed)


Google Image

Google Image


William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - Two Sisters (1901) (borrowed from google)


The Lennon Sisters


Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell (sisters)




5 sisters




5 Sisters Waterfalls


much love …
peri

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From Jena:

Jena said Today, 2:07 PM:

dear Sprite
I just found something for you posted by Soul Friend in passings pod

This is just the last paragraph. the link is below.
love to you. we are holding you.
Jena

If we wish to go one step further, we can internalize the beauty of that Life and Lesson by making the knowledge a part of our being and future.  It can improve the way we respond to others or invite us to different connections and even other people.  This doesn't replace the departed but it does let us pointedly know we were loved by them and we became better people for having known them and this highlights one of the ways.  This is what I learned years ago called Memorialization.

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Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am in a thousand winds that blow,

I am the softly falling snow.

I am the gentle showers of rain,

I am the fields of ripening grain.

I am in the morning hush,

I am in the graceful rush

Of beautiful birds in circling flight,

I am the starshine of the night.

I am in the flowers that bloom,

I am in a quiet room.

I am in the birds that sing,

I am in each lovely thing.

Do not stand at my grave and cry,

I am not there. I do not die. (Author unknown)

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Soul to Soul My love won't leave you As the life times come and go. You're the one I'll remember, The one I'll always know. You're the other part of me, The one who makes me whole. Just let me love you And dance with me soul to soul. 

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Dearest Sprite ~

When you feel ready, come and visit my memorial to my own sister. This is what I wrote at the top of the Blog.

Gaia:
A place to celebrate - knowing that others will be truly happy for you.
A place to listen, a place to learn; a place to question; a place to share.
A place of support; kind words when you are down, strength when you are hurting.
A place of giving; energy and healing prayers when you are broken.
A safe place to grieve.

My Lizzie left me six years ago. The grief never goes away ~ but it changes and becomes much easier to bear. I have come to know that she is not gone, she has just gone ahead. She always was faster than I was. I spent a lot of my childhood yelling “wait!” I always caught up with her sooner or later. I have come to know that things I used to feel were just empty words are really true. She lives in my heart. As long as I live, she lives in every memory, even the ones that were only ours. Those memories were the hardest for me to bear at first, now they are my most cherished. Our daughters live in the same city now and are best friends. It is true as well that we live in them. She lives in the work she did in Pediatric Psychology, particularly accident prevention. There are many children alive today because of her life work. That legacy is something I hold on to. Mostly I remember two little girls who lived and laughed and grew together. They are not gone.

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Dearest Sprite…

When you think of her
She is at your side

When memories smile
She is in your heart

When the breeze brushes your face
She is touching your cheek

When you feel a soft hand
She is comforting you

Imagine with love,
How happy she is
In her new place

Imagine with faith
that her place is your place
and she is decorating 4 U.

Her pain is gone,
Her love shines bright
She is your sister
She is you light.

I love you,

Dave

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Thank you everyone for your prayers and love during this very sad time.  I will write more later but did want you to know how much I appreciate all this and that your words, pictures, songs are helping me so very much.  I was a little worried to be coming home to Georgia where I am alone only to discover, I am not, I have all of you!
hugs and peaches,
Sprite 

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Buddingspritelet … beloved of all Sprites, Elves, Nymphs of Mountain, Water, Tree (That's me!) and all other magical creatures who inhabit all realms where wonder thrives. “Be well,” Sweet Sister,” They sing from under the Lily of the Valley, from the beds of violets damp with sweet dew, from the lilac just beginning to open and send it's spring perfume into the air. “Be well. Come to play with us again soon. For there never was a mortal who understood so well our enchanted ways. You know the words. You know the magic signs. We watch overr you while you grieve. We wait to welcome you home when you are ready.

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