When They Leave

When someone passes on and leaves this earth… are they really gone?  It is true that people who no longer breathe air in are in essence ‘gone’ yet, are they really? If you remember their laugh, how they made you feel, what they said and the way they were on Earth… are they really gone?  I say NO!  As I venture up north to say a final farewell to my Aunt Jackie, I think about the many things she has brought to my life and that of others.  Jackie was a strong woman with a tenacious personality and she had