Thank you.
I want to tell you how these last weeks have been for me. My heart, which now has four stents in the surrounding arteries, was doing back flips and hummingbird imitations during the great party/Taste of Gertrude/talent show/dance on June 3. Huge portions of love, talent, food, emotion, and elegance provided me with a big check and a big ache in my central pumping station.At the Mass of Pentecost on the next day there was more. Elegant liturgy with dance, song, presentations, acclamations, reporters, occasional miracles, no fireworks, instant canonization were featured. The Church was full as was the complex muscle within the chest cavity. The Mass lasted 2 1/2 hours. Green stamps were given to all who survived to be used when one cannot make the services on holy days of obligations. (Stamps expire on Arbor Day, 2009.)
Sunday, June 25, was the last Sunday at St. Gertrude. My heart did a whole ballet and was only held in by the hugs of knowing parishioners and friends. They saved my life. My departure to a new life is so emotional and my gratitude is so (can I say it?) heartfelt that I’m almost speechless. Just two words: Thank you.
WK
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