Dear Editor,
Grass Angels
Do you, dear reader, know about these? Well, just in case you don’t…it is when anyone lies in grass and makes angel wings from their moving arms. Yep, just like snow angels.
The experience and process of this activity amounts to delight and celebration wrapped up in complete silliness. And I, for one, am very ok with that activity.
Innocence is very important to me and so one can imagine my depth of sorrow when my opportunity to make grass angels was stolen from me. Right here in Fairfield.
In my husband’s retirement, all he wanted was some land. All I wanted was some grass to make a, well, you know…say it with me, “a grass angel.”
He has his land and I have grass. Yet there is no way I can make grass angels.
If you knew how tough I am, you would have to compare that statement to someone announcing that Superman was suddenly afraid of heights.
The thugs who have done this to me, don’t deserve the comfort of my silence.
So, why can’t I make grass angles? You know you want to know.
Turns out, someone in this place is most comfortable with their darker side. In that, great and unprovoked harm was brought to us which resulted in tears of grief and sadness. Too much nefarious activity to list here. And this pain was multiplied as we are mourning the death of our daughter. Someone has asked too much. Shame.
I need to say so much more was lost. You lost too, because we are awesome! Our family and friends say we are honest, compassionate, loving, giving and have the coolest pals. *smile* And we are wonderful because GOD has made us this way. In all of this traumatic grief, we do forgive you b-e-c-a-u-s-e we will never allow Satan to win. To those who have harmed us, and you know you are, it would behoove you to not confuse meek with weak or forgive with forget. We have as much of a right to a peaceful life as you do. I wonder what you would do, had someone done this to you.
I close with this question: is Fairfield just one of those places from which people move away and not toward?
Ruth Noyes
Fairfield, Texas
