Sam needs our good vibes...

[teepi]

To anyone who knew her...she is leaving this Earth soon.
To anyone who didn't....you missed a doozy...


Sam is very sick. I called her today and spoke with her husband Ken.
Not much longer he said....

Dear Sam, wish I was closer sister. I would hold your hand and smile at the sky with you.
I would sing you a song of sorrow...for I know you would like to give 'em all a bit more hell for awhile.
I would laugh at all the ruckus you managed to raise.
And I would tell you that I will never forget you.

And every spring when I walk in my yard and the lilies you sent me are swelling with bloom I will think about you and all the laughs we shared.
And you said you would find a way to send me a sign....I'll be watching.

Save a seat for me....

Diane

[luvndrumn]

Back when she first "died", I wrote this:

I Beat My Drum For My Sister Sam

Hear me now, those who knew her
As a friend either through the flesh or the electron.
She’s passed us by, she’s gone
From our sight but remains in our heart.
And I beat my drum for my sister Sam.

She rides the wind of the shaman
Flying back home.
Laughing and dancing as a child
She soars above us, smiling all the while.
As I beat my drum for my sister Sam.

New things to do, new things to be
Her head tossing from side to side
In wonder at all she sees.
A bemused expression on her face.
While I beat my drum for my sister Sam.

The ancients greet her, a recent arrival,
A child to teach anew.
She marvels at the things revealed
The truths she thought she knew.
As she moves from revelation to revelation
I beat my drum for my sister Sam.

The Magyars reach out as she flies by
Entreating her to stay.
“Soon I will come home, but not just yet.
There are too many things to see.”
They say “Calm, go slow. Time has lost its meaning.”
She stops as she hears me
Beating my drum for my sister Sam.

Looking back she sees
What has been left behind.
She motions for us to follow.
She flies back, asking why we lag
And gets no answer except the sound
When I beat my drum for my sister Sam.

A curious expression crosses her face
As the ancients try to explain
That she has crossed over
To the eternal plane.
“You have started a new journey
Full of mysteries revealed. Learn and dance
While he beats his drum for you, sister Sam.”

“So this is why my body doesn’t ache,
Why I can dance again.
But what have I lost?” she cries
Looking back at us.
“Why can’t they come along?”
“They will come in their own time”
The ancients say, “but now they stay
And beat their drums for you, sister Sam.”

Turning away, a frown on her face
She says “I don’t want to stay in this place.”
“Wait, little Sister”, comes a chorus of voices
That sounds familiar. She turns to see
A mass of faces that were part of her life
Dancing as I beat my drum for my sister Sam.

“They can not come, their time is not done.
But with us you can dance
To the beat of a loving drum.
Watch with us and soon they will fly
To this place by our side.”
“I know, I understand” she says and begins to sway
As I beat my drum for my sister Sam.

And we know that all the pain
That pursued her in this life
Stayed behind, could not enter the plane
Where she now resides.
For this I gladly beat my drum for my sister Sam.

Parting stings but memory is sweet
So we recall what has past.
The sting will slowly fade
While the memories last.
To this we hold fast, a small anchor
To help us along as we sing our song
In time to the beat on my drum for our sister Sam.
While I beat my drum for my sister Sam.
As I beat my drum for my sister Sam.

May your pain pass quickly, Marsha. May your crossing be smooth.
See you on the other side.

[old_crone]

never far apart, and always in my heart. Loving you on your journey, Sending peace, and strength along your way. Blessings my friend.

[shameless_heifer]

May gental arms of love caress you and your suffering be at end.
Lay still dear sister and feel the love that surrounds you, go in peace.

Remember us the ones that care and know that you will be/are missed.

You are a remarkable person and I feel blessed to know you. I would have like to have sat around the table with you where I'm sure we would have laughed and even cried together.

I look forward to seeing you in the Spirit Relm. I will remember you with fondness. I hope you do the same for me.

Shine your light down on us once in a while.

Peace be with you Sister

We share our hearts as luvn beats his drum for our sister ~Sam~

Mary

[Sus]

Sam, I will always remember you. I remember, back when you were Xe, and we shared the most wonderful forum thoughts and words...I remember when Xe left the boards, and, reading this fact at the library, I couldn't control my tears. I hurredly signed off, went to my car, and cried my eyes out. Your spirit is so large that if fills the world around you, it even beams out from the computer screen sending love, humor and a good poke in the ribs if we need one...when you came back as Sam I cried again, this time tears of joy!!

Know that I love you sister, that you will never be forgotten...NEVER. You will always live in my heart.

Sus

[Moving_cloud]

Sam girl ...

you are just
changing on

To grow beyond
all you ever knew

Full of Trust
full of Love

Healing, and whole
Embracing all that is

All the wonder of life
All the beauty

Be blessed

[sylvanlightning]

Every Star has its Angel,
may you be guided home.

Peace be with you.

Stay or go, so mote it be...
My love embraces you with golden light.

Blessed Be & Bright Blessings on your journeys.

*

[SandyLee]

In My Heart You Are.

Till Next Time,

Reeferman.

[Southernman]

Gesang der Geister über dem Wasser

Des Menschen Seele
Gleicht dem Wasser:
Vom Himmel kommt es,
Zum Himmel steigt es,
Und wieder nieder
Zur Erde muß es.
Ewig wechselnd.

Strömt von der hohen,
Steilen Felsenwand
Der reine Strahl,
Dann stäubt er lieblich
In Wolkenwellen
Zum glatten Fels,

Und, leicht empfangen,
Wallt er verschleiernd,
Leisrauschend
Zur Tiefe nieder.

Ragen Klippen
Dem Sturz entgegen,
Schäumt er unmutig
Stufenweise
Zum Abgrund.

Im flachen Bette
Schleicht er das Wiesental hin,
Und in dem glatten See
Weiden ihr Antlitz
Alle Gestirne.

Wind ist der Welle
Lieblicher Buhler;
Wind rauscht von Grund aus
Schäumende Wogen.

Seele des Menschen
Wie gleichst du dem Wasser!
Schicksal des Menschen,
Wie gleichst du dem Wind!




Song of the spirits over the waters

The soul of man
Is like the water:
It comes from heaven,
It returns to heaven,
And down again
To earth must go,
Ever changing.

When from the high,
Sheer wall of rock
The pure stream gushes,
It sprays its lovely vapor
In billowing clouds
Towards the smooth rock,
And lightly received,
It goes enshrouded,
Softly hissing
Down to the deep.

Cliffs tower,
Opposing its fall.
Annoyed, it foams
Step by step
Into the abyss.

In a flat bed
It slinks down the grassy vale,
And in the waveless lake
All the stars
Feast on their likeness.

Wind is the wave's
Handsome suitor;
Wind stirs up from the depths
Foaming billows.

Soul of man,
How like to the water!
Fate of man,
How like to the wind!


Johann Wolfgang Goethe 1749-1832

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[Kastenfrosch]

I was always afraid of death. Until my grandfather died. He died a long and painful death. Short before he left us, and his spirit his body, he started smiling.

This let me know, that we don't have to fear death. There is someone, or something so unbelievable beautiful waiting for us, we don't need to have fear.

Be strong, and don't fear that what may come. Have a save journey.

[Pit Schepatsche]

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[Anjee]

hamba khale, sam. have a good way. there is some incense and a candle burning for you, out on my balcony. love and light. ...

[teepi]

Ken sent me a message at 3:15 today...Sam (Marsha) has gone home.

[shameless_heifer]

Peace Sister Sam..

Bless your heart Diane.

[Heaven]

please read this:

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1742656#post1742656

[poor_old_dad]

The sadness I feel has no limits. I've never been so effected by someone I never met.

Love
poor_old_dad (Glenn)

[teepi]

Me too Glenn.
Sammy and I started talking on the phone this past year and had some helacious conversations.
She found out in July about the cancer.

She had been cleaning around the farm and the dust seemed to get to her and her breathing got so bad she went in to the doctors.
Found out the news.
They told her she had about a year but a year never went by.
It was so fast. a blessing and a curse.
The last time I called she could not get on the phone, her voice was so bad and her breathing and she just was going in and out so much.
I talked with Ken for about 30 minutes and we both were crying, it was so sad to hear the lonliness in his voice.

Sam has come to me twice now, an overwhelming ...I mean REALLy overwhelming smell of cigarettes in the air in my house (which has NEVER had a cigarette smoked in it) I could shake it and after the second time I knew....

[luvndrumn]

Just read through this thread again. What can I say but "What an entity she was/is". The verse (if that's what it was) that I penned on that day that so flustered and saddened so many of us still evokes the same sense of loss that I felt on that day.

She was ten parts grace, ten parts fulla shit;), and twenty parts Aw Shit. And she wouldn't have had it any other way.

The Magyars have got a tiger now, boys and girls.:)

Cigarette smoke, teepi? That's wild. That's Sam.:sunglasse

[teepi]

OH LUV I know...I kept asking Larry.."do you smell it?"
He kept saying "no".

I am so sensitive to the smell because we built this house and it has never ever had a cig in it.
But the last time Sammy and I did speak we talked of passing and that Ken would have a rough time and that she was not sure if he really believed she could still be with him.
She knew alot about the things I believe and she told me she would find a way if she could to let me know she was around.
This happened about a month after she went.
The first time I went outside to see if there was anyone walking out on the road and maybe the smell from their cig was drifting in but there was no one around. Then the second day I was smelling it and all of a sudden I KNEW...I started laughing so hard, tears were comeing down my face. Larry asked me what in the world was so funny and as soon as I told him...the smell went away, it served its purpose.
I have always been a bit sensitive to some receptions.
My mother and I have great contact now.

I also get things popping into my head when I touch some people.

Ken's birthday is in June, right before mine so I will send him a card..and one this Christmas too.
He sent me some pics of her when she was a young girl and when she was a nurse.
I have never felt so close to someone I have never been face to face with.
She sent me 2 boxes of lillies and hostas...I'm going to dig some up and replant in a little corner of my garden...and make a little water garden there. Just my own little memorial.
She really was something.....

[luvndrumn]

Yeah, sis , I know what you're talking about. Mom died of cancer (that bastard, mummafuggin, sumnabitchin, $#%&@*)!! piss-assed excuse of a disease {If anybody doesn't believe there is an evil in this world, go look at someone who has cancer - that'll for sure cure you}) and on her first anniversary of crossing over, I went down to the James River in Richmond. Walked out on an old piece of the canal that used to handle trade boats and just hung for a while. It was about the minute of her passing and I was just looking at the water flowing past. There was a nice cooling breeze stirring the air. Then I caught a bit of breeze that was in no way a part of the wind I had been feeling. It blew through me, not around me. It was Mom. Can't qualify or quantify or analyze or hypothisize or in any way explain it, but I know it was Mom. It wasn't until I got home from work that I realized Mom was an Aquarian. Kinda fitting, ya know?

[Rapscallion]

I've been lurking and reading for months since Sam passed and am greatly heartened by all the good feelings that my lady left behind in this world. Life without her is hard.
I'm travelling for a while but will share some stories when I can that, like you Teepi, have made even a cynic like me believe that she has sent me signs.
Live your lives with the passion and courage that she showed us all and the world will be a richer place for her having been among us.

...Ken

[Sus]

(((Ken))

I'm glad that you've been around to read about how much Sam was loved...and, I'm so sorry for your loss...lots of us miss her here, and I, for one, and so grateful for what she gave me...she will always be missed. I hope your travels bring you joy and clarity, and look forward to hearing your stories when you are ready to share them! :)

[teepi]

OH Ken,

Wow just thought I would pop in here for a sec....did NOT expect to see you here....welcome sweetie. Yes she left a bit of a legacy here.

You have my e-mail so please keep in touch.
I sent you an e-mail after you sent the pics and booklet...hope you got it.
I also passed Marsha's email to Moving cloud...said you 2 had visited so I did not think you would mind.
So check the e-mail as there may be something there for you from Moving Cloud also.
Take care on your journey and please keep in touch.
Much love to you,
diane...teepi