Heidi
November 15, 1970 - November 11, 2004
In loving memory of the wonderful mother of my precious granddaughter Sara.

"So little space
A human takes on Earth.
Less than a tree in the forest.
So big is the space
She leaves behind
That not a whole World
Can fill it"
My transl. from a poem by I. Arvidsson

"Where do we go when we go to a place
That simply is no place at all?
When we step out of time to become nothing more
Than a memory few can recall?
How can we be when we no longer are?
Or, earlier, not yet have been?

A bit of eternity sits in our souls
Though we live in the house of the wind.
Consciousness comes like a stranger to call,
Both us and yet something quite more.
Where it may come from and where it may go
Is a wonder behind a locked door."
Nicholas Gordon

"In memory of those who died
We weep and walk away.
Tears run into swollen streams.
No trace of us remains.

Even those who grieve are gone,
And those that grieve who grieve,
And those whose lives are ravaged by
A frantic urge to be,

And those who wander silently
Among the empty rooms:
Immortality is theirs,
Though they must vanish, too.

We bear astonished witness to
The passage of the soul.
No bridge exists that can connect
Our passion to the whole."
Nicholas Gordon

Thank you for all you did, we will always miss you, dearest Heidi.