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My mother died on Ash Wednesday

My mother died on Ash Wednesday Her last words were to angels Who serenaded her on her way To God and up to heaven. They asked her to join in But she didn't want to sing. It must have been a hymn She knew, but said, "You sing." By  diabetes, most her life, stricken And yet she died from cancer. Accompanied by angels up to heaven, Serenaded by an angelic, heavenly chior. Died at the age of 77; Would have been 78 that year; Serenaded by angels up to heaven On February 9 2005 Ash Wednesday.

First appeared in SMITH Magazine, smithmag.net on the Six-Word Memoir® project, sixwordmemoirs.com.

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"The Moment" on Salon.com

"For many of us, there’s a single moment in our life when it all changed. For Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” it was the moment when, as a baby, she overheard her parents talking and realized she wasn’t the center of the world. For Richard Ferguson, it was when his beloved dog was run over by a truck. … These stories are all part a beautifully written, moving new collection of essays edited by Larry Smith, the founder of Smith Magazine, about the instance when a person’s life takes a new path."