Ali, May
24
Dear Jody
I could not hold my tears when I read what you have just posted.
I am among the few who knew about her illness and I felt reluctant to
ask any of you about her...I realized that May did not want to share
that with any body, but her absences was noticed by every body.
I will never forget her lighting a candle for me when I was traveling
from Baghdad to Jordan , she was following me through out my trip as
a mother or an older sister..
I will not mention how much she contributed, but really she has
evoked unforgettable impressions deeply seated in my heart
Olivia,
May 24
If any of you are in contact
with May, please pass on my love for her, and
that I shall light candles that she may be held in light and love.
Ilkin,
May 24
I didn't meet her personally
too, but had to meet her in my dreams a few times and honored to be one of
the Busy Bees with her. Thanks Jody for persuading her to tell the Bridge
folk. Now we may be able to share our common feelings and may do better to
be beside her as a group.
Kathy,
May 24
YES let us light candles for
Baomei - for I know she used to keep a candle alight for many many things.
BUT what about a special DaFuMu linked to the reservoir as Baomei
especially created that as a place of peace - and perhaps even linking it
into her Goddess of the North (Chinese) - her picture is up at the
reservoir.
Valley,
May 24
May is at the center of so
many of the actions that have occurred on the bridge and I have deep
appreciation for her kind spirit and strong hearted compassion.
Kathy,
June 1
Dear Dear Baomei,
My heart is sad that you have died.
My eyes are full of tears.
Yet I know
You are traveling Home.
Fare you well Baomei.
Until we meet again.
DaFuMU to you Baomei.
Tonight,
I will dream for you.
My love to you,
Kathy
Diana,
June 1
I am stunned and grieving :(
I had been trying to obtain an item for her the last few days, but it was
something new, that I guess it must not yet be in distribution. It was
just a sort of video display for perhaps a comforting memory of friends.
Your posting brightens me to know that she moved through this time without
sadness, but with courage and grace. We will all miss her greatly. I can't
quite digest the news....
With much respect and sorrow
Valley,
June 1
I just want to send off May
with my heartfelt love and appreciation for her kindness and integrity,
her love for children and her playful spirit. I am so glad she returned to
the land of her ancestors before making the big journey home. Much FU to
you May!!!!!
Jeremy,
June 1
Sounds like she went in a
benign way. To travel to China with friends and see the land of her birth.
And not to have to suffer the delay of treatments. To pass away without
long suffering, tho surely deep. But to come to terms with the passage in
a mature and kind way. To have lived a life of serving for others, and
helping others. To have been cheerful and supportive to so many. This has
been a life well-lived and one well-given back to Nature. In her passing
she had modeled an honorable path for others, including me.
May, I send you my love wherever you are and in whatever form and wish you
a gentle passage.
Liz, June
1
I don't have many words - I
felt a great sadness along with the rest of you.
Here I started a page in her memory.
I've also made a slide show of our beloved May. I apologize for the length
of time it may take for it to download and begin; I tried to find music
that would honor her the best way possible.
Jody,
June 2
I can hardly type for
weeping once again as I did yesterday morning on receiving the news of
May's death. Today as I went to the beautiful site Liz put up with the
song for May, I weep again, but not only with sorrow with joy too. The
pictures at the ocean were the ones I took of May and myself on our last
visit there. May told me just as I said my last goodbye to her that I was
in a real way there as a representative of all of her "dream family, us."
Olivia,
June 2
How beautiful that Baomei
finally got to return to China, before she passed on. And that she felt so
at peace when visiting the Gobi Desert. According to esoteric tradition
(Western, but I think also Tibetan Buddhism) the spiritual centre of
Shamballa lies over the Gobi desert. It is also a place one can reach in
meditation, or dreams.
Kotaro,
June 2
Dear Jody and friends,
Since the 1st of June (the 31th of May in USA), I have wept, cried,
and could not stop my tears many times.
Yesterday I was at the balcony to smoke and think about our Baomei. A
co-worker in the office came to talk to me and found tears in my eyes.
He asked me what had happened. I explained briefly. Some moment passed
and he told me that I was the lucky man because I had such so wonderful
friend for whom I could weep so deeply.
Then I noticed why I was not feel unhappy even though she had past away.
Past away? I did not think so. She became free from her physical body
now, and must be flying like a beautiful butterfly.
Warm wishes and love to all,
Kotaro, who had a Da Fu to have a friend like our Baomei.
Laura,
June 2
Like many of you, I was
still processing the announcement of her
illness when word of her passing arrived. It was simply a shock. Liz,
you have a honored her and her spirit, with a wonderful presentation
that captures her smile and peaceful energy. I think we will all be
moving through the process of loving, grieving, and remembering May.
Let us hope that we will all have dreams of her. I believe that
Kotaro's words have made more tears come to my eyes....
Anna,
June 3
Ah! Our Baomei, moved on.
It seems so fast....
I will trust, blessedly fast for her ..
I call up in my heart not only her passionate work here, also our few
private correspondences where her full funny opinionated stubborn
practical curious wise and so intensely loving presence comes fully
through...may that beautiful Spirit still flourish ('flourish' just noted
that word- related to flowering -did she choose in some way to go in this
flowereing time? I will look for her in the garden always at this time of
year now)
Tuesday -a Da Fu Mu of Passage for May?
Off you then dear May not gone but unfurled.
Victoria,
June 3
Hi Jean
Perhaps the point is that dreaming for 'something better for more people
in the world' is something happening through group dreaming.
Could some kind of image involving the reservoir and yellow candles in
honour of Baomei/May be placed on the wdpb pages somewhere?
Gentle loving peacefulness to and for all
Ralf, June 3
Dear Kotaro,
I saw a pair of white flowers of yours in my inbox today. This is how I
see dear May's soul now, shining with God's loving light in abundance.
It is just like I saw the father of my spouse, God bless him, who died
three weeks ago. Without a doubt she will go on living in our hearts and
in paradise. I pray that this group will find the strength to keep
up the good work in which a great part was her.
Love,
Ralf
Stephen
The last
time I saw May we sat in her home on a rare sunny day. Gifts and reminders
of her friends from the bridge were everywhere around her, and the stories
I brought that she loved the best were tales of shared friends from before
she knew them. Her eyes gleamed as she mined, and probed my memories, and
it was all with the intensity of finding the missing piece of a puzzle, so
she could declare it finished and known. It was all done with love. Now
May seems done with what was puzzling her in this life. She found the last
of her missing pieces, popped it into place, and went out the door. A
class act to the end… I’ll miss her.
Stephen
Ali, June
4
I was not shocked to hear
the bad news, but I felt very bitter for the loss of May.1I kept on
reading what every body writes about May, but, I myself felt something
different from all of you....
It is said once a friend in
need is a friend indeed ! and I always found May when I need her , and
she was very generous to offer all she could offer, starting from lighting
a candle for me when I travel through the lands of death and
terrorism....to .......endless love she had her heart full of !
I used to send May my electronic diary, telling her what is going on, and
she was encouraging me to tell her about even minor details we used to see
and experience throughout living in the middle of nowhere...Baghdad !
May memories will never be forgotten, and she left unforgettable
impressions.
Ilkin,
June 5
Dearest May;
I feel lost...
Remember that dream?
"..Garden with green grass
and colorful flowers. Willow trees covered with hyaciths and lilacs
bending over the ponds. Branches of willows heavy with purple, pink, blue
bulbs. And the mystic voice saying; the lady now finished the house and
begin to decorate the garden..."
And your reply?
"You write the most
beautiful words that enter directly into my person. The dream too. House
-- a place to live after death? Garden, planting -- rebirth of both plants
and human? I walk through your dream as if I am with you, entering that
wonderous place... I am more or less doing about the same. It is a
peculiar region to be in, not belonging to either world..."
Now, I am dreaming writing poems to you but no lines in dreams seems
enough, they say;
"she was an orca working for children
she was a swan understanding dreams
turned to a dolphin now touching our sprits..."
But a real poet, Khalil Gibran says better;
"Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."
Dance Bomei, dance for all the children of the world, dance for all of us,
dance for peace, dance with love, dance with laugher, dance in that
wonderous garden... We will meet in our dreams... and wait, finally we
will dance there hand in hand...
-ilkin
Nick
It was a shock for me to
hear this news. I am never sure how to
respond to death - with pain, with joy?
I honour all the wonderful things you have shared here. I will miss you.
Love Nick
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