Nana

in one week it will be my Nana’s (my great-grandma) 108th birthday. One week ago she passed away....today was the memorial: a family reunion

i can’t even imagine all the things she has seen: how her world has changed...she was born in the Rod and Gun, the wagon station and....at the time.....only hotel in Parksville on Vancouver Island

her parents ran the Rod and Gun....her dad brought electricity to the town. She witnessed the invention of motor cars and the hostile takeover of television....in her lifetime, people not only learned how to fly, they flew to the moon and beyond.....she has survived world wars and family feuds....she outlived two of her three children and remained the matriarch of our clan.

today, her relatives had a drink in her honour in the bar where she was born......we're here because of Nana, because of Nana we're here......