GOODBYE TO MY NANA

The very special woman who raised me as her own. The high flying bird known as my "Nana" who loved to dance, laugh, bake, play cards, and strum the ukelele, has left our world at the age of 97.


She passed away this afternoon peacefully in the arms of the family that she created and loved with a special beauty and a guidance that was simply brilliant.


An incredible woman with a huge zest for life, she lived with a vigor and fiestiness that was truly heaven sent.


She had some definite ideas about how to live in this crazy world, and you would be better off if you just listened!!.....So we all did..


Always one to have a tender word of encouragement and guidance for me personally in so many transitional situations over the years. I feel like I have no way to repay her.


She was right there when I horrifically broke my leg as a child, when I ran head first into a brick wall in my youth. When I sang my first song in grade 1. When I ran the marathon road race as a young teenager, and when I returned from my last trip to Asia....


Her husband, my Grandfather Bill Bromley (a wonderfully soft spoken like able working gent )passed away a full 31 years previously on Christmas day, but stubbornly Nana blazed a trail of love and hope all on her own.


From children, to grandchildren, to great grandchildren she held a special place in her heart for all of us. Sometimes she mixed up a name here and there, but that just put a wider smile on our faces.


She really can never be replaced and it seemed very foreign to me to step onto the street tonight with the knowledge that this beacon of light in my life will no longer be around for guidance. I will never forget you Nana.


I could go on and on, but I feel blessed, just to have known her. My words simply don't do her life justice.



Pure love and respect, that is the message that she imparted to me.




Here is a video from her birthday a couple of years ago.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6RJDEJUmA4



Goodbye nana.......I am glad you are free of your burdens of the last two years. It's time for you to fly again.



I am certain you will.



And if I didn't cry it to the heavens enough today, let me make it clear one more time........I love you.