Good Bye to a Friend

Tonight, we as a community went out to dinner to Ajijic Tango. The reason for our get together was to say good bye to dear friend who has been a major contributor to this community.

She brought her logic to the board. She brought her love of life to her friends and neighbours. She brought friendship to my mother. She brought hope and support to my father.

She has been all of the above to me.

Whenever I miss my mother and need her advice, I go to T. She thinks like my Mom did. She has insight like my mother and she doesn't mince words, just like my mother. Sometimes I can forget for a moment that my mother is gone when I am talking to T. What an amazing gift that is.

My mother was confined to a wheelchair in the last years of her life, due to injuries, so the life of the party and the drawing people together through her parties and friendship, didn't really happen here. She didn't get out to meet the neighbours like she did in both of our houses in Ontario.

But T saw through that and saw the real woman that she was. They connected and were dear friends.

But unfortunately she has her own life commitments and a life elsewhere other than here in Ajijic and she is returning full time to it. She will be so dearly missed by everyone but especially me.

It hard to imagine that you could feel so close and intimate with someone that you have known for such a short time. But that is exactly how I feel about her.

The neighbourhood said goodbye and wished her well.

Her friends are going to miss her presence but know the friendship will follow where she is.

I know I have to really grow up and be the adult and find my inner strength to make a new life. But I am missing the motherly touch that I didn't outgrow in all my 43 years and T was my last connection to that.

Thank you T. You will never know how much you meant to me and how much you truly helped. I wish you and your family a wonderful new life and you always have a friend in me.