Speaking of Rachel
It appears that there is a widely felt need to speak and listen to others speak about Rachel, her life, her vibrancy, her death, and Vida as well. But words are hard to find for topics such as these.
Let's talk. Maybe we could start with something like this....
If Rachel had a favorite flower, what would it be and why?
posted by Aram in Kenya @ 7:17 PM
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5 Comments:
Rachel's favorite flower Yellow Roses. Titus always gave her yellow roses.
Maybe the children can give more details.
Just postulating, but I think she would have liked hyacinths, because they grow in the wild and they are symetrical. Swartzentrubers like symetrical things. And Schlabach's would like flowers that have bulbs so you don't have to think about every year, they just come up. That's what I think.
Debbi
Yellow roses were the thing. But a few days/weeks before her death, she says to me out of the blue, "no yellow flowers in the coffin. Yellow makes me look like death warmed over! Pink is nice, and I really do like pink roses as well as yellow ones." So now we know. I think lilacs were a close second. As for hyacinths, they are symetrical and ROUND, yes a very Swartzentruber flower. But I don't remember ever having any when I grew up. Daffodil, forsythia, mimosa, wild violets, iris (always known as "flags"), yes.
Charlie and Garrett made a cross for Rachel's marker. Mandi and I then went and purchased artifical Lilacs. We have it next to the cross. I do recall sometime back Rachel telling me when she lived in this house she would look out the North window and admire the lilac bush and how beautiful they were. Just last summer the local children helped start a planting of lilacs in the circle part of the drive in the woods. I go hope they will produce.
i always thot that her favorite was lilacs.. it seems to me that dad brought her lilacs.. this impression came when i was very young. maybe a comment as i tried to arrange them in a vase...i cry when i read your comments...grief is a weight that ive chosen not to wear only because ''surely He has born our griefs and sorrows,'' so i choose to let Him..just yesterday out of my mouth came a declariation that suprised me.. something to the effect that 'i choose to not wear the 'mantles' that vida and rachel wore' it was a very visceral, emphatic and sudden outburst.. i think that my love and adriration for them brought me to somehow chooseing to try to carry on where they left off and i realized that i had my own to wear, and heritage, tradition and admiration did in no way indicate that i should be anyone but myself... whooooopppiieee...
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