Amherst MA – Early yesterday morning my mother died. I missed her by a few hours, as I had traveled from home to Amherst when I heard her condition had seriously worsened. I was sleeping in the condo she and my father had bought in 2010, and was going to go to my brother’s house early the next morning. But she passed quietly in the night and had been removed by the funeral home by the time I woke up as my brother called me.
I’ve not much to say at this very moment. All I would like to do right now is share a photo I took of her in September 2017 during a family week at Cape Cod. She is standing on the shoreline, at the edge of land and sea, looking out across the vast horizon of the sky. It says all I need to say today. -twl
