Dept. of Remembrance

[kaffy_r]

Happy Birthday, Mum

This is Mary Glen Keirstead Routliffe Stirling. She was born on May 30, 1927, in Greenwich, Nova Scotia, Canada. For most of her life, she lived within 10.5 miles of the house where a midwife delivered her.* Nova Scotia was where she died, on Oct. 27, 2013.  Nova Scotia was her home. 

In the 13 years since she died, I've generally remembered her on the anniversary of her death, and I'll undoubtedly do that again. But today, when she would have turned 98 if she hadn't moved on, I wanted to turn my face to the sky and sing Happy Birthday to her. I hope she and my stepdad, Rob Stirling, young and beautiful again as they were when they fell in love, are together.

And I like to think that after a modest dinner at a modest heavenly restaurant, with a birthday cake that has all the taste and none of the calories, that they will leave the restaurant, and dance together, twirling and laughing, in the stars. 

I love you, Mum.  


*She spent a short time in Montreal as a newly minted nurse, and later, in the years she was married to my father, she lived in or around Mont Joli, Quebec. Together, those probably consisted of no more than five years.

Comments

[cmcmck]

So glad you had a mother who cared and who you care for! :o)

[kaffy_r]

Thank you. I know there are so many folks who don't have the experience I've had with my mother. I'm very lucky; I wish everyone had a mum like mine.

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks for sharing the joy.

[kaffy_r]

It's my distinct pleasure.