Footprints on the Sands of Time

 

Crystal Michelle Fallin, Costa Rica

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Her Light Won’t Be Dimmed

Merritt Pecan Company

Crystal Michelle Fallin, October 2018

“Life is Short Art is Long” Hippocrates

Art Lives Forever

 

Crystal Michelle Fallin artwork for her grandma Mary, 

Columbus, Georgia October 2018

Air of Mystery and Wildmess in her Bones

Crystal Michell Fallin

Grand Lake, Colorado, 2011

“Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson

Artist of Hope

Artist of Compassion

Artist of Love

 Crystal Michelle Fallin with her grandmother Mary

Columbus, Georgia

October 2018

To the prettiest grandma in the world

Crystal

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

BY EMILY DICKINSON

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

Fire within Her Heart

 

Crystal Michelle Fallin, May 1997

St. Augustine Academy of Performing Arts

“Unforgivably Herself” a poem

Crystal Michelle Fallin, The Bahamas 

In this time, and in this place,

She was unforgivably herself,

Full of flaws, beauty, chaos

And imperfections,

For those things are what

Made her real in this world,

And the things that are real

In this world are the things

That are loved the most…

 

She was Fire and Ice, Wild and Free

 

Crystal Michelle Fallin, St Augustine, Florida 2018

“I wondered lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth - “She Dances with the Daffodils”

Dancing with the daffodils

Crystal Michelle Fallin, Artist, Dancer, Writer, Free Spirit

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

Marineland, Florida - Seashells on the Sand

Crystal Michelle Fallin, Marineland Beach, Florida 

October 2010

Seashells on the Sand

“The tide recedes, but leaves behind bright seashells on the sand. The sun goes down, but gentle warmth still lingers on the land. The music stops, yet echoes on in sweet, soulful refrains. For every joy that passes, something beautiful remains.”

-Unknown

Song for Athene

Song for Athene   

Alleluia. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Alleluia. Remember me, O Lord, when you come into your kingdom.
Alleluia. Give rest, O Lord, to your handmaid who has fallen asleep.
Alleluia. The Choir of Saints have found the well-spring of life and door of paradise.
Alleluia. Life: a shadow and a dream.
Alleluia. Weeping at the grave creates the song: 

“May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest” Shakespeare

Remembrance a Celebration of Life - Crystal Michell Fallin

Crystal Michelle Fallin, September 7, 2018, Columbus, Georgia

 Today three years ago, we celebrated your life and said goodbye until we meet again at Heaven’s Eastern Gate.  You are missed and very much loved.

Celebration of Life

“Angel Flying too close to the Ground”

Crystal Michelle Fallin

 If you had not have fallen

Then I would not have found you
Angel flying too close to the ground

And I patched up your broken wing
And hung around a while
Tryin' to keep your spirits up
And your fever down

I knew someday that you would fly away
For love's the greatest healer to be found
So leave me if you need to, I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground

Fly on, fly on past the speed of sound
I'd rather see you up than see you down
So leave me if you need to, I will still remember
My angel flying too close to the ground

Leave me if you need to, I will still remember
My angel flying too close to the ground

Song by Willie Nelson

“Rejoice in the Dance”

Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:13

Dancing Story Teller

Crystal Michelle Fallin, Dance Artist

She could dance and tell the most beautiful story without saying a single word.
 

“You Are Near, Even if I Don’t See You”

 

Crystal Michell Fallin, a bridesmaid at her sister Angela’s wedding Columbus, Georgia, May 2010

In Loving Memory, June 19, 1984 - August 18, 2019

You are near, 

Even if I don’t see you.

You are with me,

Even if you are far away.

You are in my heart,

In my thoughts,

In my life,

Always.

(Grief and Healing in the afterloss)

“Lovely” A Poem

 

All that made you

 fragile and fierce;

clever and powerful;

wounded and creative;

layered and thoughtful;

moody and insightful;

wild and damaged,

Can be described in

One single word:

Lovely…

“A Soul who knew how to Dance”

 She always had that way about her.

With a heart that knew depths

Beyond this world, eyes that saw

The beauty in all things and a

Soul that just knew how to dance.

She was Sunsets and Melodies

“ I find you in places like sunsets and melodies, and I’ll see you on the other side of the stars.”

~ Katie Wood

Crystal Michelle Fallin

June 19, 1084 - August 18, 2019