Miss you, Pat.
It’s a year today since Pat left us. I think about her often.
I once asked her favorite color.
“Sunshine yellow for walls in the kitchen, deep emerald green for old glass, purple for clothes, red and orange in fall leaves, auburn hair, Carolina blue skies, ash rose for my bedroom walls….but I once bought a book (no, twice I’ve done this!) ’cause it had the purrfect color of green on the cover…{g> Green. Ireland has over 40 shades of it, and someday I’m going to go count them all.”
A while back I got permission to put out a remembrance of her in the memorial tea garden at Tamsine’s Rest in the Crossing, in Dragonrealms, the game she worked in as GM Mroce. I put it out today.
>look on stand
On the bamboo stand you see an unfinished quilt square, a black silk fan painted with cherry blossoms and lotus flowers, a pot of green tea and a pot of jasmine tea.
>look square
The square depicts an elaborate circular labyrinth, its twists and turns a rich autumn red against a deep green background the color of old glass. At the edge of the labyrinth, the stitching is unfinished. A single auburn thread no thicker than a hair lies curled at the labyrinth’s center. In the corner of the square are the initials “M.D.”
I miss you, Pat. That’s all. I just miss you.