After You Left:
Notes to My Friend Georgia

"'We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh' asked Piglet. 
‘Even longer' Pooh answered."

On March 18th, 2000, an afternoon that equaled her beauty in kind, my beloved and longer than forever friend, Georgia Alice Miller, left us momentarily to laugh and play with the angels, her closest kin. The good fairies, who favored her here on earth, sprinkled extra fairy dust across the spacious night sky and danced around the full yellow moon. "Don't worry," they whispered, "her spirit lives in everything and everyone she ever loved and how many do you know who loved like that?" Very, very few, I answered through my tears. Good-bye sweet Georgia, I will miss you longer than forever.

~ Gerry Anne Lenhart
March 19, 2000

1. Sometimes I catch myself
2. I will go with you
3. Oh my dear
4. You've been gone now
5. It's cold here now
6. They had a garage sale
7. Pretty soon it will be warm here
8. The day you left
9. You wouldn't believe the prices of houses now
10. For the longest time
11. When you called
12. I crossed the Bay Bridge yesterday
13. Did I tell you about the day everyone made a speech?
14. It's raining hard today
15. After you left
16. You always reminded me
17. I can still see your face
18. What times we had
19. The robins are back from their vacation
20. Sometimes joy splashes in my face
21. When I almost died
22. We were so intuitive
23. When I lost you
24. It was your birthday
25. Where are you, Georgia?
26. March 18th, 2001
27. Today was like a day in Paradise
28. I'm not sure you ever really knew
29. We loved
30. Last night
31. Seconds, minutes, hours
32. Where ever you are
33. Just yesterday I had a party
34. One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five days now
35. March never comes
36. My heart is lower
37. I started painting
38. Yesterday I visited Notre Dame
39. It's graduation time!
40. This year Jacob's coat
41. Georgia
42. I planted vegetables again this year
43. The Yellow daffodils
44. I don't know what I would do
45. The other day
46. You called me "The Star Lady"
47. I look at your sculptures
48. Here on Robin Road
49. We had a chilling March
50. Georgia, my dear