Susee Mable's Silent Meditations

Susee Mable 1941-2015 (Gananoque, Ontario 1976)   It’s been six years since mom passed, but the hurt is as immediate as if it were this morning. I don’t think that feeling will ever change. The days leading to, the day of and the days that followed are clear in my memory. I’ve never felt so dislocated in my life. However, within the heart of all these emotions, I still felt centered. My mother had always lead me in the right direction, she always knew I’d heed the sound of her voice. She is alive and well in my heart and leading me through the hurt to where I can locate myself again. When I was in kindergarten, she held my hand and taught me how to find my way home in case I ever found myself alone. Six years may turn to forty and that's OK, I already know the way home.   Posted by: Anil

  Susee Mable: May 20, 1941 - April 13, 2015 Anil, Susee and Suha, Niagara Falls 1977 Photo by: Raju Every day we live our lives on one side of an equation. The variable on the other side is still unknown or at the least, unclear. We have an idea, but that too is shaped by probabilities and it is this uncertainty that derives value in what we do know for certain and what we hope for at best. When my mother passed away five years ago , it hit my family very hard. We were as prepared for it as we ever would be and did our best to honor mom. Each one of us is now treading a path through grief collectively and singularly as best we can. The heartache is ever present, and so too is the courage and strength which mom gifted to us.  Photo by: Suha The balance of the equation is in understanding the nature of a unique and irreplaceable relationship, its loss, its value and its effect on the self. The balance of the equation is the self—it’s all of us who ...

Suha and Susee - 1979 Berrien Springs, Michigan "Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."—George Eliot Posted by: Suhasini

Susee Mable, June 17, 1997 Photo by: Raju "You got a face not spoiled by beauty."—U2   “A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”—Joan Didion Happy Birthday darling Mummy. From Narendrapuram to Toronto to Heaven above: May 20th forever. Love always, Suha, Anil and Raju.

Susee Mable with Suha and Anil, 1977 “Mama, I hope you're proud of me. I took all the awful things they did, and turned them into empathy.” ― Nikita Gill Posted by: Suha

Susee, Anil and Suha (1978) Photo: Raju "Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime." —Shakespeare (Sonnet III) Posted by: Suha

Susee, Suha and Anil C.N. Tower, Toronto 1978 Photo: Raju “Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”―J.K.Rowling Posted by: Suhasini