Here is the link to my dads memorial.

http://obit.desmondfuneralhome.com/obitdisplay.html?id=718944&listing=Current

I guess it would just be best to google "Desmond and Sons Funeral Home" in Birmingham.

Go to Obituaries:

Edward Elliott Forsyth
(went to heaven on October 24, 2009)

thank you!!

Did anybody tell you today how beautiful you are?

If not, then my friend, go look in the mirror...and tell yourself!!

I'd tell you right now if we were together because I'm always thinking how beautiful you are when we are sharing.

My husband and I were walking today and passed a house for sale. On the For Sale sign was another sign that said "I'm Gorgeous Inside." He said, "honey, that's what you need to carry around!" I was like.....hmmmmmmmmmm, is that because I'm looking older? OR because I am gorgeous inside.

I laugh as I write this because I took it as a compliment today! YAY me! It wasn't all that long ago that I would have gotten all freaked about it and started to wonder "are my wrinkles showing?" "Is my lip crooked?" So many things we can pick on when it comes to our face and bodies.

Today, I felt gorgeous inside, and outside too and actually said "thanks Honey!!" "You are too" and then said "a lot of people need to wear that sign!" He even agreed!

No one can take that great feeling of love away from me unless I allow it. Sometimes I can be caught off guard though, especially from someone who I think loves me......and that hurts so bad I start to cry.

Last night at my husbands birthday party my sister in law yelled at me to "SHUT UP JYL JUST STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!" My 78 year old mother had just cooked a beautiful Italian dinner and I was helping her call everyone in to eat. Apparently, she was talking to my husband and how dare I interrupt her conversation. She yelled at me in such a tone and I just started at her...... looked at her in disbelief and wanted to cry right there. That hurt. This is someone who loves me?

She's done that before, and everytime I am stunned!

Before the night was over, I was crying. Family dynamics are what they are, but this is my brothers wife and she has said to me before, "off all the mean things I've said to you over the years, you've never yelled back or gotten mad!" I have this on video my husband took otherwise I wouldn't have remembered this.

My answer to her, "Because I love you, and I know that after you treat me that way, you feel horrible about yourself, and I always forgive you!"


They say I'm overly sensitive and to toughen up. Be like a duck. Let it roll off my back.

I stood there and said, "these are my feelings. I'm feeling sad. It's appropriate for me to cry when I'm sad. You aren't inside of me right now, so you have no right to tell me that I should not be crying or how to feel."

I left the room, went to my childhood bathroom upstairs in my parents house, and gave myself a dose of love. That works for me! I have faught for so long and hard for my own self acceptance and to be a part of this planet where everywhere I turned was told "something is wrong with me!"

LOVE......is what I put into the world the best I can everyday, to everyone I meet, including myself. It breaks my heart to hear the harsh, mean, abrasive words that people say to those they "supposedly" love, even to strangers. It ALWAYS has.

I'm just older now, and wiser, and aware of what all this means. I will never have a stone cold heart and the mean words that people so carelessly spew to others will always hurt me.

What I know, "is that when I say something that hurts you or anyone. I physically get sick, and its just NOT WORTH IT!"

I will not cause that kind of pain to myself!

Are YOU embracing this Beautiful Fall Day.......or..........

dreading it........ knowing that winter is on it's way?

So many people I ask say they "used to love fall"....but having lived in Michigan for so long, now HATE it "because they know what follows." Old Man Winter!

I hear what you're saying but COME ON!
The sun is out, the leaves are so gorgeous as they change into their fall colors, it's not even Halloween and you're already into winter?

You'll find so much more joy in life if you live it one day at a time and not one season at a time!

All of the 4 seasons signify CHANGE.
Yes change! You know it well. We all do. It comes into our lives on any day, at any given moment and sometimes in multiple moments and weeks! At least with the seasons coming 4 times a year, you pretty much know what lies ahead. So why dread the magnificence of mother nature and her changes when they are completely out of your control? Why not instead, be consciencely thankful that you have your eyes to see the changes and your skin to feel them?

Bundle up, take a walk and breathe in the fresh air. I promise, you'll feel so grateful when get out and look all around you and up at the magnificent sky. Watch a squirrel prepare for winter. They are busy and so cute as they scamper about and jump from tree to tree.

When I grew up, we had only brown squirrels. Now they are gray, brown, black and sometimes a mixture of all 3 colors. Actually, I see more black squirrels than any other color. Interesting how that happened. Just think how boring our dogs lives would be without these adorable little creatures.

It's true that lifes greatest joys come from mother nature. Not only in her magnificence, but when you think of the simpleness of her as well.

My greatest prayer is that we love her completely and let her be.
That YOU remember how blessed you are to see, hear, touch and feel everything that is around you this very moment in nature.

What would life be like without sunshine and rain, trees and flowers, little and big animals, oceans with no mammals or fish, the blue or shades of gray sky? I can't even imagine.

Life doesn't have to be as hard as we have a tendency to make it. When you step up or step back and let your life unfold as it should, like it does in nature, you'll start to find the beauty in every season........and the wonder in every moment.

You, my friend, and me, are one of natures most beautiful creations, and
when we take care of her, we are taking care of ourselves.

It's important to remember that nature isn't just what you see outside your window or feel on your skin.

It's who you are, and if you haven't already, because it's never to late, to embrace, hug, admire and love yourself and your very own "human nature."

Love is in the air!

Congratulations to the soon to be
Mr and Mrs Teresa and Matthew Kleinberg
and
Mr. and Mrs. Jessica and Raed Silmi.

I am so excited to DJ your wedding receptions this weekend.
We always have so much fun.

There is absolutely nothing better than celebrating LOVE!!



Yes, I am still DJing weddings!

(248) 282-2290

Cheers to you!

Jyl