2.12.14 Adam News and Info

dontshakemytree - 
A beautiful memory. Thank you.
My mom died just a few hours after I watched Adam perform "Ray of Light" at the VH1Divas. 
This song and this memory will always be a signal - a signpost, for me. She is flying. She has found her way into the everywhere. 
I opened her hope chest and found three 'albums' - the 33 1/3 kind.
One was 'Dances of the Pacific" - music of Hawaii/Tahiti/Figi/Maori that she treasured. She was a Polynesian dancer. The other two were the musical score of 'Camelot' with Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet - and romantic songs performed by Jack Jones, who sang very much like Sinatra. 
Why these three albums were in her hope chest - along with baby shoes, locks of hair, love notes from my father - - - is a question that provides a little key into her heart; into her knowing.
She remains eternally romantic. 
I took these albums, and together with a portrait, and the veil and preserved flowers from her wedding cake I made a little testament to her at the Temple at Burning Man. A little shrine, maybe. I gave me comfort, for I never saw the mesmerized loveliness you experienced with your mother. 
The dream my mom and dad shared had died many years before. 
I know she sat on the edge of her seat in her quest for love. 

Like you, I, also, am my mother's daughter in many ways.
My heart will always be my compass.
 
And, on a lighter note, my children are already shaking their heads over who will preserve the Adam memorabilia!