"When you hear a song or see a bird I loved..."

Adam passed along this beautiful piece of poetry he got from the director at the New School last week. It's so perfect for Mia. Mia had such a perfect joyful child-like wisdom and naturally created beauty all around her and made it feel like you were on the sunny side of the street anytime you walked next to her.

I think she wants to see us smiling when we think of her and this poem is a pretty reminder.
Enjoy. :)
And thanks Adam for passing this on...
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To Those I Love

If I should ever leave you whom I love
To go along the Silent Way,
Grieve not,
Nor speak of me with tears,
But laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you there.

(I'd come - I'd come, could I but find a way!
But would not tears and grief be barriers? )
And when you hear a song
Or see a bird I loved,
Please do not let the thought of me be sad...
For I am loving you just as I always have...
You were so good to me!

There are so many things I wanted still to do -
So many things to say to you...
Remember that I did not fear...
It was Just leaving you that was so hard to face...
We cannot see Beyond...
But this I know:
I love you so -
'twas heaven here with you!

(By Isla Paschal Richardson)