Aunt Peg

Anyone that knew her knows that she was honestly one of the best human beings ever to live on this earth.  Really.  Not just, "she was a great woman", that's not enough.  She brought new meaning to the words "accepting" and "kindhearted".  She left this world a year ago today, but she left it a better place...even though my world will never be the same without her.  she is around though.  i now understand when people say they can "feel" their loved ones around them.  it's not every day, but she is around.  whether it be all the hundreds of birds that spent the summer in my parents yard (NEVER in my life did i see so many birds there!) or when my beloved dog (who she ADORED) was hit in front of our house, as i approached him i felt her presence so strongly like she was there with him.  It doesn't make it any easier.  It is never going to be the same as when I could talk to her whenever I wanted.  It just won't.  But i will always remember her and always strive to be a better person like she was.  I will always be exactly who i want to be because she was the one person that ALWAYS accepted me for just that, and embraced it and encouraged it.  that's all anyone could ever want in a person.  the best gift anyone can give is complete and total appreciation and acceptance.  she gave the world that and more.

“Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.“
~Robert Louis Stevenson