http://www.getthere-fromhere.com/blog/celebration/day-12-an-irish-grandmother/ Get There From Here Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:11:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.getthere-fromhere.com/blog/celebration/day-12-an-irish-grandmother/#comment-211 Day 17: Sport (30th Birthday Countdown) | Philadelphia PA Life Coach | Jennifer Gleeson Blue Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:33:07 +0000 http://getthere-fromhere.com/blog/?p=474#comment-211 [...] leaving my grandmother’s funeral yesterday, I mostly wanted to curl up on the couch with a bottle of vino and watch Law & Order [...] [...] leaving my grandmother’s funeral yesterday, I mostly wanted to curl up on the couch with a bottle of vino and watch Law & Order [...]

]]> http://www.getthere-fromhere.com/blog/celebration/day-12-an-irish-grandmother/#comment-210 Jennifer Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:24:31 +0000 http://getthere-fromhere.com/blog/?p=474#comment-210 Jess - I would love that! Jess – I would love that!

]]> http://www.getthere-fromhere.com/blog/celebration/day-12-an-irish-grandmother/#comment-209 Jess Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:06:26 +0000 http://getthere-fromhere.com/blog/?p=474#comment-209 Jen, I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. I'm glad you had those last moments with her. PS - Lauda sang a beautiful arrangement of this poem set to music - I think I still have a copy of the sheet music, I'd love to share it with you. Jen, I’m so sorry to hear about your loss. I’m glad you had those last moments with her. PS – Lauda sang a beautiful arrangement of this poem set to music – I think I still have a copy of the sheet music, I’d love to share it with you.

]]> http://www.getthere-fromhere.com/blog/celebration/day-12-an-irish-grandmother/#comment-208 Jennifer Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:59:57 +0000 http://getthere-fromhere.com/blog/?p=474#comment-208 Anne - Thanks so much for sharing of your art and I'm glad you could use the poem. What an amazing image you created of Betty! For others who are interested, I want to re-share your link, which is actually www.arcgallery.org/members. Anne – Thanks so much for sharing of your art and I’m glad you could use the poem. What an amazing image you created of Betty! For others who are interested, I want to re-share your link, which is actually http://www.arcgallery.org/members.

]]> http://www.getthere-fromhere.com/blog/celebration/day-12-an-irish-grandmother/#comment-207 Anne Farley Gaines Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:45:14 +0000 http://getthere-fromhere.com/blog/?p=474#comment-207 Dear Jenn, I am an artist and am going to be showing in an exhibition at the Irish Cultural Center in Chicago -- a watercolor entitled "Betty" which I have renamed 'Irish Grandmother.' While looking up poems about Irish Grandmothers, I found your blog entry plus the poem by WB Yeats that you offered your dear 'Mommon.' I am going to include that poem as an 'add on' with the painting, because the 'Irish Grandmother' I have painted had a very rough life, as did your grandmother. The poem promises better days, in this world or beyone. I'll also include a paragraph about the fact that a young woman of 30 offered it as a poem to her Irish grandmother who passed away within the week. I hope that this offers you some solace. Very Sincerely, Anne P.S. Log onto www.arcgallery.com/members. My link (Anne Farley Gaines) will show the portrait of Betty ("Irish Grandmother")as one of the images. I am Irish but have never been to Ireland. Some day... Dear Jenn,
I am an artist and am going to be showing in an exhibition at the Irish Cultural Center in Chicago — a watercolor entitled “Betty” which I have renamed ‘Irish Grandmother.’ While looking up poems about Irish Grandmothers, I found your blog entry plus the poem by WB Yeats that you offered your dear ‘Mommon.’ I am going to include that poem as an ‘add on’ with the painting, because the ‘Irish Grandmother’ I have painted had a very rough life, as did your grandmother. The poem promises better days, in this world or beyone. I’ll also include a paragraph about the fact that a young woman of 30 offered it as a poem to her Irish grandmother who passed away within the week. I hope that this offers you some solace. Very Sincerely, Anne
P.S. Log onto http://www.arcgallery.com/members. My link (Anne Farley Gaines) will show the portrait of Betty (“Irish Grandmother”)as one of the images. I am Irish but have never been to Ireland. Some day…

]]> http://www.getthere-fromhere.com/blog/celebration/day-12-an-irish-grandmother/#comment-206 val Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:04:23 +0000 http://getthere-fromhere.com/blog/?p=474#comment-206 that was beautiful jen, i'm so sorry for your loss that was beautiful jen, i’m so sorry for your loss

]]> http://www.getthere-fromhere.com/blog/celebration/day-12-an-irish-grandmother/#comment-205 Sean Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:48:30 +0000 http://getthere-fromhere.com/blog/?p=474#comment-205 Beautiful poem. I awoke this morning only to see her spirit stirring in the snow. She will be missed. Beautiful poem. I awoke this morning only to see her spirit stirring in the snow. She will be missed.

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