Gone Too Soon

Blogs are like anything else in life. Sometimes you don't feel like doing a Blog. Still it's that freedom that keeps you doing one, everytime you begin to tire of the ritual you find inspiration in something that you hadn't expected and it kick starts you right back to the keyboard. Summer is upon us all, so there are many distractions that call us away from the insignificance of what we write here. Still, there are many amongst us for whom summer isn't all fun and sun, this blog is for them.

Last February while embroiled in an end of life situation with my own father I read of a heartbreakingly beautiful family led by a courageous single mother named Marcia Glover-Banks who was dying of terminal cancer. At the suggestion of her hospice she went into the studio to record what can best be described as a tear jerking song of goodbye to her three daughters. Incredibly enough they too sat in on the recording and were as beautiful in the their responsorial chants as were their dying mother's lyrics.

Of course as it would turn out, my own father went into hospice at the end of the month and died March 13th. I never followed up on this family and to be honest they slipped off PinF's radar. That was until today, when looking at links that had lead a daily visitor to PinF I noticed someone had logged onto archives to read this article so I decided to take a look and see how things turned out for this woman and her three lovely daughters. I was saddened to read that Ms. Glover-Banks had died just last month on June, 9th. This news made me want to give a shout out for her, her daughters, and to anyone else who reads PinF who has an inclination to donate anything they find possible to the surving children of this woman. Listen to the song if you can bare it, the emotions and love that come from this dying woman's words are powerful stuff and a reminder to us all that what we have can all go away tomorrow.


Donations for Marcia Glover-Banks' three children -- Shanice, Andreas and Jasmine -- may be sent to:Friends of Marcia Glover-Banksc/o PNC Bank104 North White Horse PikeStratford, N.J. 08084