You may have noticed that a lot of the funny signs I’ve posted over the years have had the credit at the bottom, “Sent to me by my good friend, Marsha.”
She left us on the 6th I found out this morning.
We met over 20 years ago. She contacted me to have her pottery displayed on Creative Artworks, the website my son built for me to display and sell my art work. I ran this website for over 17 years, adding artists to the site until we numbered 100. When Marsha’s hands would not allow her to continue making pottery, she switched to making jewelry from sterling silver and listed it with me.
I only met her face to face once. I lived in Arkansas and she in The Villages, FL. Harvey, my husband, had a business meeting near there and I got to go with him. Marsha and I spent an afternoon together and a close friendship was cemented.
We emailed daily for over 20 years. One of the first things I did each morning was to check for her email. Sometimes we wrote back and forth several times during a day. We became closer than friends. More like sisters. We could tell each other anything and everything without fear of judgment. How special is that?
She became ill this past year. We still wrote daily, but she wrote to me right before she went into hospice last week, saying she had had enough. We had time to tell each other how much we loved each other, would miss each other, and how wonderful it had been to share our friendship, our lives…
I’ve been writing the same message daily to the address she gave me at the hospice, hoping she would read or feel it –
“Marsha, I’m with you and I love you.” For some reason today, I also checked the obituaries, and there it was.
I’m happy she has found peace. She handled things the way she wanted to. The hospice people made it so she didn’t suffer. I hope to see her again some day.
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