Analysis Of A Daughter's Eulogy By Lilli Ann Cotilla
“Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.”
A Daughter’s Eulogy, by Lilli Ann Cotilla
My mother, Brooklyn Paige Abercrombie, died on June 12, 2094. She’d fallen asleep in the warm June sun while tending to her infamous rose garden, and never woken up. I like to think that, if she could have chosen her way to go, falling asleep among her beloved roses and slipping off would have been her pick.
My mother’s love for her rose garden, and by extension, gardens in general, might be seen as eccentric. She even requested before dying that instead of purchasing cut flower arrangements for her funeral, donations might be made to the National Fund for the United States Botanic Garden. However, I think it …show more content…
She is survived by her three children, ordered from youngest to oldest: Theodore (Teddy), Penelope, and me, Lilli. Her husband, my father, passed away two years prior to her. We will miss them both. My mother loved her family with a singular devotion, both those of her blood and otherwise. Anna Moscowitz, one of my childhood friends, referred to her as ‘mom’ as often as I did. Mother loved us all in different ways. For example, Penelope was and is a very ambitious, sports-centered girl. She competed to be on every team possible and wore bruises like badges. Mother, who had never truly played a sport in her life, took her to major league sports games and arranged for her to meet the players of the Los Angeles Sparks for her fifteenth birthday. On the opposite end of the spectrum, she helped Teddy to build the Ultimate Collector’s Edition Millennium Falcon, at 5,195 pieces. Mother never had liked puzzles. And I will never forget the memories of mom taking me to the Georgia Aquarium at 16 to see the whale sharks, creatures I’d been fascinated with since I was little. She always went out of her way to show others that she
A Daughter’s Eulogy, by Lilli Ann Cotilla
My mother, Brooklyn Paige Abercrombie, died on June 12, 2094. She’d fallen asleep in the warm June sun while tending to her infamous rose garden, and never woken up. I like to think that, if she could have chosen her way to go, falling asleep among her beloved roses and slipping off would have been her pick.
My mother’s love for her rose garden, and by extension, gardens in general, might be seen as eccentric. She even requested before dying that instead of purchasing cut flower arrangements for her funeral, donations might be made to the National Fund for the United States Botanic Garden. However, I think it …show more content…
She is survived by her three children, ordered from youngest to oldest: Theodore (Teddy), Penelope, and me, Lilli. Her husband, my father, passed away two years prior to her. We will miss them both. My mother loved her family with a singular devotion, both those of her blood and otherwise. Anna Moscowitz, one of my childhood friends, referred to her as ‘mom’ as often as I did. Mother loved us all in different ways. For example, Penelope was and is a very ambitious, sports-centered girl. She competed to be on every team possible and wore bruises like badges. Mother, who had never truly played a sport in her life, took her to major league sports games and arranged for her to meet the players of the Los Angeles Sparks for her fifteenth birthday. On the opposite end of the spectrum, she helped Teddy to build the Ultimate Collector’s Edition Millennium Falcon, at 5,195 pieces. Mother never had liked puzzles. And I will never forget the memories of mom taking me to the Georgia Aquarium at 16 to see the whale sharks, creatures I’d been fascinated with since I was little. She always went out of her way to show others that she