I ask that you hold her in your heart for just a little while today... just as you're reading this. If you are inspired to light a candle for her in remembrance, that would be lovely.
I also want to invite you to send me the names of your loved ones who have passed through the Veil, and pictures are welcome, by Monday, October 28. I will compile them all into one Forget-Me-Not post in honor of them on Samhain. Email: kallan.kennedy@gmail.com (please do not message them to me on Facebook).
Shekhinah Mountainwater
(October 24, 1939 – August 11, 2007)
Very shortly after this, Shekhinah was diagnosed with uterine cancer. She told me on several occasions that the goddess had brought me into her life at just the right time, because she needed a friend to talk to. We would chat for hours online about any and everything, but mostly about her illness and how she planned to deal with it. After a time, those chats became more infrequent, as she just didn't have the energy anymore to sit up online and type. I specifically remember our last chat conversation where she thanked me for being there for her through this time in her life, and that she knew we probably wouldn't talk again because of her illness.
She was always so in love with life... always so kind and gentle, even when she was being treated so badly by so many people... and not just online. She had issues with a roommate, ended up having to move, and other people-issues which I will not divulge.. but, toward the end of our time online, she was happy and accepting of what was going on, and had no fear of passing on to the Otherworld whatsoever.It is said that her last words were, "It's better now". And, that would be like her.
Shekhinah was one of the original goddess-movement mothers in the 1960's and 70's. She called herself "Faery Bard, Radical Muse, Foremother of the Womanspirit movement, Author of Ariadne's Thread, Priestess of Aphrodite."
And, she was all of those things and more.
There are lovely people keeping her teachings and website alive here:
http://www.shekhinah.net/index.htm
Here is her last interview. She was so lovely.
Here is a link to her book, Ariadne's Thread. I still have my copy of this today:
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Shekhinah, there will never be another like you. You set a standard we can all aspire to, and you lived your life and death with purity of spirit, gratitude, dignity and grace.
I miss you.
You are loved.
You are remembered.