{"id":434,"date":"2012-01-29T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/?p=434"},"modified":"2012-01-30T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T14:24:05","slug":"heres-to-you-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2012\/01\/29\/heres-to-you-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s to You Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ruth Voisin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was twenty years ago today that my mother died suddenly.\u00a0 I often wish I could speak with her again.\u00a0 But time is healing my loss and it’s fun to reminisce every now and then.<\/p>\n

She collected old lithographs with a theme depicting a bluebird on a tree branch with a little girl gazing up, usually looking out a window.\u00a0 They reminded her of one by Bessie Pease Gutmann that her mother had.\u00a0 Of course this morning a couple bluebirds happened by my backyard.\u00a0 Every time I see one now I chuckle and think to myself it’s mom saying hi.<\/p>\n

Mom’s the one who got me interested in genealogy.\u00a0 She often said that I come from “good stock” and spoke of how strict and clean my German ancestors were.\u00a0 Even though my grandmother’s pantry had a dirt floor, it was always swept and “clean.”<\/p>\n

Not to get too mushy, but I keep in mind a star to represent loved ones who have died.\u00a0 That way, no matter how busy or preoccupied I am, I’m always reminded of them when I see that star at night.\u00a0 (It helps that I can identify dozens of stars and constellations.)<\/p>\n

Mom’s star is Sirius in Canis Major.\u00a0 She asked me one night on the balcony of a condo in which we were vacationing at Gulf Shores, Alabama, what that bright object was hovering over the ocean.\u00a0 I explained that it was Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, and that it even has a companion star that orbits it.<\/p>\n

So some time after she died I was looking up at Sirius and reminisced about that moment.\u00a0 To this day I am reminded of her when I see Sirius.\u00a0 Wouldn’t you know it, Sirius also crosses the meridian (it’s highest point in the sky) annually at about 10pm CST this day.\u00a0 So tonight when I walk the dog, I’ll look up to Sirius, the brightest jewel in the sky and say, “Here’s to you Mom!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was twenty years ago today that my mother died suddenly.\u00a0 I often wish I could speak with her again.\u00a0 But time is healing my loss and it’s fun to reminisce every now and then. She collected old lithographs with a theme depicting a bluebird on a tree branch with a little girl gazing up, … Continue reading “Here’s to You Mom”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,54],"tags":[68,69],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times","category-maternal-ancestors","tag-bluebirds","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}