The kids and I have been with Vicki throughout her journey and have watched her battle with such strength and dignity. It has been a long journey, three weeks short of 6 years and throughout we have all been touched by her thoughts, her wisdom, read her many entries to this blog and have seen photos and images through her eyes.
Yesterday afternoon, I sat in her usual place and could see some of the magic she saw and experienced each day, it was all around - I could hear the birds, the wind and see the soft light streaming through the windows of her healing room.
All the while she had been preparing us for when she needed to go home. Early this morning, Vicki started the last few steps to find her way home and I know that Vicki had a warm welcome waiting her with friends and family she loves dearly.
Vicki passed away peacefully and has now arrived home.
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She will be missed, but I am so happy that she is now "home." My thoughts and prayers are with you all!!
Oh! This is such mixed news. Her suffering is over; yours continues.
She wrote so memorably. With such insight. And thankfulness.
Blessings and Bear hugs in such a time as this!
i am so sad, i am speechless. thank you for writing this with such awareness and love. i am glad to know vicki died peacefully. i know she did her best to make it so for her family and herself.
i will return to leave a more thoughtful comment. for now, i am sorry for the loss of a remarkable woman
together strong, vicki
love
kj
Thank you for this post.
She will be missed by the many people who knew her through her unique and loving blog. I will miss her friendship even though we never got to meet. I am honoured to have known her.
RIP Vicki
may you find pain free bliss now your home.
Dear Vicki, home at long last. I am so sad that your valiant fight is lost but happy that you can now rest peacefully knowing that you refused to give in through the long years of this vicious attack on your beautiful body.
You will be greatly missed of course, but never forgotten.
Phil
I am so, so sorry to read this news, but I am grateful that her pain and suffering is over. Vicki touched us all with her wisdom and courage, her strength and her positive attitude. I am extremely grateful and privileged to have known her, even if our acquaintance was only through cyberspace. From Vicki, I learned the true meaning of the words "grace" and "gratitude." I will miss her tremendously.
My thoughts are with you all as you make your way through this difficult time, and begin your new lives without her physical presence. Know that she will never leave you, and that she loved you all immensely.
Rest in peace sweet Vicki. Until we meet again, my friend. Say Hi to Renee for me xoxoxo
I will miss Vcki so much. Her beauty, her warmth, her humour, her ability to bring Magick into the world and to make us all see it! Yesterday, I was at Church saying special prayers and lighting a candle for her...
I believe she WAS ready to travel home....and she prepared for this as she did for everything - with courage, steadfastness and...love.
Vicki loved you - her beloved husband and children SO MUCH! As she said on her sidebar...she loved you so much her heart ached... she will live on in YOU.... as she will in US, her blogging family. She was and will continue to be a bright candle in the heavens...sparkling and shining down on all.
Ah, Vicki, I am going to quote another of your sidebar poems..
"May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night,
and the road downhill all the way to your door"
The door has opened....your family who arrived ahead of you is there, welcoming you, Renee is there, arms outstretched, Barry too.
I will miss you. I love you.
I know we WILL meet one day - when I, too, travel home.
Your Friend from San Francisco,
♥ Robin ♥
I will miss you Vicki and your kindness and caring way. Please accept my prayers and condolences. You will be greatly missed.
This is a very sad day.
I remember going home the day my husband died, a few short hours after. As I walked through the door of my house, the first thing I said was "Welcome home baby".
I've not followed Vicki's journey for long, but several of her posts touched my heart. There were others that I couldn't read without crying.
Vicki is indeed home, and will always remain with those of you that she loved. Her family and friends. And while her loss will be felt here on earth, those that she loved have gained one hell of a guardian Angel.
So here's to Vicki, to the battle she fought, to her life and to continuing on, the way she would have wanted you to.
Love, hugs and prayers
TGL x
I have written a post to her memory and dedicated a painting. http://pinchmetoseeifyouaredreaming.blogspot.com/2011/11/nollyposh-is-gone.html
Goodbye Miss V... you are a true Lady. May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back
You know, it strikes me as really sad that we can walk right up to the outer gate of death with another person, but there we must take our leave. I would have liked so much to have seen what Nolly (I never called her Vicki) was seeing and to have felt what she was feeling. She was surely thinking of her family, but perhaps she gave a nod to us as well.
Even after all the death I've seen, I never get used to the fact that someone who there a moment earlier is really and truly gone forever, almost as if they never existed.
Oh, I have to disagree with you there Snowbrush. The whole world is different with each person. Surely I am different for knowing Vicki. I am sure you would say the same.
But I agree that it is hard that we won't meet her here again.
I came here not expecting this and now I am in a bit of shock as you must be. I will miss Nolly so very much. She is and always will be a shining spark, a glowing spirit.
Love to you and the family.xoxo
this blog goes back a ways. it is lacked with courage and crisis and a spiritual faith that threads through every word of vicki's. i always sensed she asked alot of her family: expected them to be able to accept and thrive even through her illness and all the fears and frustrations that were forced upon her and her family.
i hope now and years from now this blog serves to carry vicki's voice forward. hers is a strong voice, reporting and not judging, playing her cards with the wise skill and mirky luck.
i want vicki's family, her children especially, to know that, for me, she lived to the very end and never let her beliefs and presence be lessened by this horrible disease.
i know her strength and fairy-like lens will be carried on in each of you. one way or another.
and i know she will watch over you forever more.
with love
kj
I'm so glad to have had a chance to know Vicki ... Nolly. Such a remarkable and strong woman ... and I'm so very sad she's gone. I'll miss her and her insightful and always gentle words. She always knew exactly the right thing to say. XOXO
Oh, I am so sad to hear Vicki has passed. I will miss her strength, her gentleness and her love.
Vicki has returned home and I know she will watch over her family with the greatest of ease and love. She will always be with you...and no longer will she be enduring such pain.
She is one of the most remarkable women I have ever known. My love to your family. xx
"Zom said: "I have to disagree with you there Snowbrush. The whole world is different with each person. Surely I am different for knowing Vicki. I am sure you would say the same."
Yes, of course, but she's still gone from us as surely as if she never existed. Sometimes, when I try to remember a person who is dead--that is to recapture their essence in my mind--I find it very difficult. I can bring up a face, remember mannerisms, voice inflections, and so forth, but it's not them that I'm conjuring up but rather my memories of them, and this makes the experience unsatisfying because it's all one way. They can't write to me again, or look at me, or talk to me, or think about me, or love me. It's as if an entire universe suddenly stopped existing when they died. How much more profound can an experience be? Yet, I must say that I'm less afraid of death every time someone I know dies. It's like the poem "Thanatopsis" with its sentiment about the "innumerable caravan" in which we will all someday take our place. Whatever this entails, Nolly Posh is there, and I will be too someday. The time is short.
Can't say I am surprised I knew when she had you blogging for her she was preparing for her trip home. She was a shining light in my short blogging life and I celebrate her life with gratitude for knowing her here.
QMM
I am so very sorry to learn of the Passing of Vicki.
I wish her family Peace & Love and I hope where ever Nolly is now she's smiling and at peace....
Alli ....XX
I read this post shortly after it was posted and my heart was heavy. Her words were always bright and eloquent. They often reminded me of our dear friend Renee who I met through Vicki a couple of years ago. I am sure she is has found rest and peace after her long battle with illness. My heart goes out to her friends and family.
Heartfelt sympathy to the whole family.
Thanks for letting us know Patrick? Linda?
I am very sorry, you will all miss her so.
Vicki was my first blog friend, and first real life friend who totally 'got me'. I loved her so, and I love her still.
Natalie.♥
My thoughts and prayers to you! Vicki was also my first bloggie friend and over the years has become like a sister. She loved her family so much and her spirit lives on. I miss her so much and just know she will be visiting each and every one of us in her own special way. I thank you for leaving her blog and Facebook up for us to look thru and remember all that she was.
xoxoxo Sandy
My thoughts are with each of you.
I shed a tear for an amazing soul, a beautiful lady, and while I never had the opportunity to meet Vicki in person, she has touched my life even with the few comments we exchanged between us here.
May peace be with you Vicki ♥
goodby Vicki, may you fly with the angles.
You will be missed in blogland.
I wrote a post about Nollyposh in which I included a letter that I got from Patrick (her husband) after I wrote to him to ask permission to use some of her text and her photo. He also sent the Order of Service for her funeral, which I would be happy to forward to anyone who requests it. If I don't already have your address, just put it in a response to my post, and I will copy the address without allowing the response to appear on my blog. I would also be interested in reading other people's posts about Nollyposh if everyone will be so kind as to let me know that you wrote one. I will also make a list of such posts and send it to Patrick.
May God enbrace her and alla her family and give you courage to go on.
Dear Patrick and Family,
Sending you all love and strength as you go through this Christmas. Vicki IS there - right beside all of you....I hope you can feel her presence....
Love to you all,
♥ Robin ♥
Patrick, I guess it must be Christmas in Australia about now. I just want you to know that my thoughts are with you today as they are every day.
Thank you for the gift of Ms. Nollyposh's words, emotions, wisdom, humor and courage. I learned of Vicki through another Oregonian's blog, Snowbrush.
What a fitting way to wind down 2011 reading about her journey ... your journey.
blessings and prayers to vicki's family during this holiday and new year. i'm sure it doesn't seem right that she is not among you and yet she would assure you she is. i always believed her. i hope you know.
with love
kj
Hi, Patrick, I just wanted to send you happy wishes for the New Year. You know, if you wanted to do a little posting on Vicki's blog, there's certainly a precedent for it, and I, for one, would just love to hear from you.
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