Hi Carole,
This would be the time of year we'd be a year apart, you in Januarty, me in March. We'd giggle about it. You are not here yet you are, and shall always be for the rest of my days.
We celebrated the holidays this year ten days after Curt's lung surgery. And the teriffic news is that today, January 2, we learned he is cancer free!
Love and miss you dearly.
OH Carole,
Positively amazing!
The line outside Josh's Fookem's Fabulous Key Line Pie this morning. He was open a few hours earlier today, Thanksgiving.
A true "happening!"
Carole,
We visited Josh in his Fookem's Fabulous
Key Lime Pies shop last Friday.
Coconut Grove.
You'd be so proud!
I was blown away!
Hello my dearest sister,
Two days late posting. Today is October 21. Time does that. Years pass without you and I never cease wondering how much richer, fuller life would have been be with you by my side. It aches to imagine.
You continue in dreams and are forever in thoughts.
Josh has opened a physical Fookem's Fabulous Key Lime Pie Shop; a spot in Coconut Grove! Celeste, Curt and I plan to visit him there this week.
Danny is in Detroit on a video assignment. Pays for his travelling, seemingly he's been all over the world!
Hello Birthday Carole,
I dreamed of you the other night and awoke in tears.
What reminded me of you was Miguel, my grandson whom you never met because you died three years before he was born. He's nineteen, was home on winter break.
There is something familiar, a kinship about him that triggered thoughts of you. He has your trait of laughter with a spontaneity and glee. We laughed and giggled all the time he was here. His exuberance evident, funny and crisp.
He carries a touch of you and my dream-state recognized it. In that sleep, I was sitting on the ground in front of a desolate home garage with faint circle-blur spots staining its white trim. And perched on the roof, a female weathervane pointed toward the heavens.
I woke up tearful with longing and remembrance.
Hey Carole,
Sister Love
of my life,
yearning,
missing,
dreaming of you.
Video with Key Lime Pie Vending Machine
Well, not sure if video will load ....
but below is a screen screen shot from video.
Mall hosts Fookem's Fabulous
Key Lime Pie
PLUS link to Forbes article:
Julia & Henry's: This Miami
Food Mall Delivers Sublime
International Flavors
Writing class prompt: June 2023
The call that change my life
The call that changed my life came in on October 20 at 9:42 AM. I was in the kitchen, the phone on the wall, its long coiled cord like a huge banana curl nearly reaching the floor.
I wore pink shorts and a tank top, ready and grateful for a bike ride ahead. The year before I’d had a 50-50 chance following a grim surgery and now could peddle through the neighborhood.
Hello, I answered.
I heard my son’s twenty-one-year-old voice. Mom where have you been?
Been here, I said, left the phone off the hook, you know Nana calls all hours of the day and night …
I’ve been trying to reach you since 2:30 this morning.
2:30 this morning?
My body instinctively tensed. Time diffused.
Mom, Carole died.
Carole, my sister Carole?
The sister who could expand mythologies, explore the hidden power of inanimate things, extend them, make them malleable, turn them inside out. And suddenly — whish — a beginning appeared bright and alluring renewed by a fresh perspective, her words transmuting the order of the universe. She with a knowledge that preceded our birth.
That sister, the love of my life?
My sister, Carole?
Gone?
*
I dream,
and dream,
and dream, of you
as if we
were infused.
