It could be said

[joegoda]

That she was an absolute wonderful mother. She made special cakes for birthdays, and was the den mother for a pack of rowdy cub sprouts, she sewed costumes for plays that never quite went as planned and was the greatest cheerleader when things went well and the most marvelous physician of the soul when things went ill.

It could also be said that it was she about whom the phrase "When she was good, she was very, very good, but when she was bad, she was a terror"

And while all this is true, one inescapable fact remained. For good or ill, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, she was my mother.

Rest now, momma. You'll be missed, but by god! You finally made it out. Tell Jamie and Dad and Gary hello and I miss them, okay. Tell 'em I'm sorry I can't be there, but that's not my fate, as you well know, you old psychic you.

Betty Jo Goda Beebe passed through the veil earlier today, Oct 31st, 2009, after eating a breakfast of biscuits and gravy. She walked a new trail, blazed a new path and took a different road after a brief nap.

She always loved Halloween, and now she and Harry Houdini share a date. 'Night, Mom. I'll see you in my dreams.

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[bountifulpots.livejournal.com]

Love you and thinking about you. Hugging you virtually and intend to do so in person when next I see you. If there's anything else I can do from this distance, all you need do is ask.

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

Then I ask you to consider yourself. Think of your interactions with your loved ones. Think of how important you are. Do so without hesitation, without reservation and without ego. YOU are important, even though we are taught to ignore that importance or to take that importance and make it small. YOU are important, even though we have been taught that we aren't really. - That's the lie of raising. It's the lie of a society that wishes to protect itself from itself and keep the status quo.

YOU are important. You have more love in you and to you than you allow yourself to see or recognize. YOU have no idea how important you are, and that is the way it should be. We should NOT know the depth of our importance, but we should be aware of it. YOU are important. Purely and Simply.