Bibian Ganzva

This is an angel I gave my grandmother. When she died the angel made it's way back to my bedside. It reminds me of a prayer she would speak with me at bedtime when I was a child (linked below). My grandmother, like Bibian, was an ambitious, intelligent, hard working and large-spirited woman (and single mom!) whose love embraces me even now. And her generosity of spirit I also see in Bibian. May Bibian rest in peace, lifted to heaven by the love of those she leaves behind. Abends, will ich schlafen gehn, vierzehn Engel um mich stehn: zwei zu meinen Häupten, zwei zbu meinen Füßen, zwei zu meiner Rechten, zwei zu meiner Linken, zweie die mich decken, zweie die wecken, zweie die mich weisen zu Himmels Paradeisen. In the evening, I want to go to sleep, Fourteen angels stand around me: Two at my head, Two at my feet, Two at my right, Two at my left, Two who cover me, Two who awaken me, Two who guide me Towards heaven's paradise.