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From: "Dafanie Goldsmith" <>
Subject: RE: The Leaf & Rikki.
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:07:52 +1300
In-Reply-To: <000101c03a97$1106b9a0$b4cf07c4@pix.za>


Dear Wayne

Thank you for your beautiful words - with your permission I would like to
consider reading it at my darlings service on Saturday.

Please let me know if that is ok with you.
Dafanie

Dafanie Goldsmith MNZAC. MCTAA(NZ)
PO Box 527
Warkworth
New Zealand
Tel/Fax 64+9 425 9225
Home Page http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/golden/

-----Original Message-----
From: WAYNE-LEIGH NEFDT [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, 21 October 2000 1:00 a.m.
To:
Subject: The Leaf & Rikki.

Dafanie

I wrote this last week, to my mother, after she came to visit her twin
grandchildren, that she gets to see once every 2 months.

This last time we sat down and discussed death, as well as life, as she felt
that most of us tend not to talk about death and then wish that we had
afterwards.

It was not an easy topic to discuss, but we managed to, by laughing and
crying at different times and even at the same time. Of course in the back
of our minds we held that dark thought that this could be the last time we
meet like this and that any one of us could be the one to die, before we
would have an opportunity to meet again. We expressed love, forgiveness and
agreed that no guilt should be felt by anyone with regard to what we wished
we had said, done, not said, had not done in this life.

A few days later, whilst riding to work, I noticed a leaf falling from a
tree, and as I find myself doing more and more since the birth of my twins,
I was marvelling at this simple action and found myself wanting to pass on
to them what I was experiencing, all due to my looking at the simplest
things, with their eyes.

It also dovetailed with our family discussion held previously and if you
don't mind I'll share it with you.

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LEAF

"I marvelled yesterday morning whilst driving to work at a leaf that was
spiralling to earth from a tree above. As it drifted down, it caught the
early morning light that managed to pierce through the branches, sending
shards of crimson flashes, like a vessel in distress, to all that bore
witness to this simple soul that was plunging headlong to earth".

"Before I could be witness to it's new life at the foot of it's previous
lofty heights, I had sped passed, and in my heart I wanted to stop and to
reassure it, that it must not be too perturbed about life on this level, it
certainly was different, but enjoyable all the same. I wanted to tell it,
that where it once experienced the flighty excesses of wind and vision, it
would now feel the loving caress of mother earth and all that dwelt upon
her. Also I wished to say "welcome" and "thank you" for being amongst us and
that what may have been distressing for you, was a vision of beauty for me".

"Finally, do not feel isolated and apart from your family and friends, for
they are all around you, those that came before and those yet to come,
before you once again, follow the next stage of life, and the doorway into
that life .............. death".

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Dafanie, Rikki has passed through the doorway that we must all pass through,
I'm sure that he did so secure in his ability to do so, strengthened with
the knowledge of your love for him.

We wish you Long Life.

Wayne, Megan, Kyra & Gabriel Nefdt.




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