RIP Nasturtiums in Salad Friend

 

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Nasturtiums in Salad Friend has passed away. She came up in passing in a conversation about RantMom. Nasturtiums in Salad Friend has been failing for a number of years and in hospice for the last several months. Word is, Nasturtiums in Salad Friend had good conversations; other Friends later tried to call her the night before she was found. She was found when a retirement community staffperson knocked to take her for breakfast. Rest in Peace Friend

Readers who would, in memoriam, enjoy various RantWoman ramblings and reflections on Nasturtiums in Salad Friend and community life are invited to use the word nasturtiums in the search bar.

As luck and providence would have it, RantMom and Nasturtiums in Salad Friend lived in the same retirement community for a number of years including the years of #pandemic lockdown. Nasturtiums in Salad gardening proclivities were still going strong, though not on quite as grand a scale as when Nasturtiums in Salad Friend was working on a composting toilet project at the large community garden where she devoted a lot of time.

Nasturtiums in Salad Friend also continued her lifelong gift for growing community by creating space for people to make beaded jewelry, napkin rings, and other craft products in the retirement community where RantMom also lived. This fact makes RantWoman smile, all the more since Nasturtiums in Salad Friend evoked the kind of patient confidence that carried RantMom through the adventure of making a set of napkin rings in spite of RantMom's fingers not working well for quite a while.

RantMom's body has reached a point beyond the reach of magic wands to fix all that is not working. Today, after two rough days of changes, RantMom's hands flutter as if she is trying to do something though RantWoman cannot tell what. Maybe in addition to Christ among us here and now, there is an afterlife where both lovers of flowers can garden freely with no more pain and joyful results.