That Friday morning when Alice woke up<\/p>\n
and the woman came to help her with her pills,<\/p>\n
something was not all right.<\/p>\n
The woman left and came back with a nurse<\/p>\n
who found Alice in her bedroom on the floor.<\/p>\n
There Alice was when the phone call came in to Mark,<\/p>\n
and we all went to her apartment<\/p>\n
and said goodbye to her body.<\/p>\n
The staff had wrapped her neatly in a blanket, like a gift.<\/p>\n
We sat quietly.\u00a0 Mark washed her hands, feet and face.<\/p>\n
Alice would have approved, I thought.<\/p>\n
Though she would have asked for one more art course,<\/p>\n
one more poetry class,<\/p>\n
one more visit with her children and her grandchildren.<\/p>\n
Receiving an answer in the negative, responding,<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s okay, I had a very good life.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In my painting class that Monday<\/p>\n
her bedroom took shape on my canvas.<\/p>\n
Colorful fabrics, artwork on the walls, sculpture on the floor,<\/p>\n
cat under the bed.<\/p>\n
The picture window looks out onto the snow-covered woods,<\/p>\n
but the sky has painted itself a moonlit night.<\/p>\n
It tells its own version of when it was Alice\u2019s time.<\/p>\n
In the middle of the night, she wakes up out of sorts.<\/p>\n
She gets out of bed, grabs a blanket from the closet,<\/p>\n
and settles down on the floor.<\/p>\n
Decades ago, she and Bert slept there when backs were cranky.<\/p>\n
Now, as she drifts off, she thinks,<\/p>\n
whatever will happen, will happen,<\/p>\n
it will be another adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cousin Steve Adler-Golden: That Friday morning when Alice woke up and the woman came to help her with her pills, something was not all right. The woman left and came back with a nurse who found Alice in her bedroom on the floor. There Alice was when the phone call came in to Mark, and we all went to her apartment and said goodbye to her body. The staff had wrapped her neatly in a blanket, like a gift. We sat quietly.\u00a0 Mark washed her hands, feet and face. Alice would have approved, I thought. Though she would have asked<\/p>\n
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