Eileen Billie Lander

A dragonfly accepts it’s brevity of life
With its gossamer wings feeling the breeze
Full of freedom it watches our joy and our strife
Its wisdom learned flitting from water to air to trees
With wings that shimmer showing purpose and duty
Obedient to all of life’s changes in flight
Modestly it shows us its outer beauty
Always gracious, mindful and full of delight
So whether what life gives you is good, bad, or sad
Show others that inner beauty counts and matters
Make your actions amount to many smiles and be glad
For the dragonfly knows it lives a brief life this way
So I learn from this creature to live wisely each day
And make every minute special to those that you love
As the dragonfly watches our actions from above

~Ruth O’Neill

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt
into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the
breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and
seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed
sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you
shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs,
then shall you truly dance.

From The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Eileen will be buried on December 22nd at the Big Bear Cemetery at 11am.
Please light a candle at that time, say a little prayer, and think of
Eileen dancing with Ron on the clouds in Heaven.
May she rest in peace.
 

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