Sean Meighoo (Nephew)
Entered
October 22, 2020
from Decatur, GA
Like most of us here, I can’t remember a time in my life when Auntie Tara wasn’t there. Of course, this isn’t true for Uncle Persaud – I still remember one of our many surprise visits to their house on our trip to Canada a couple of years ago, when he told us the funny and very touching story about how he met and fell in love with Auntie Tara. But, like Karen and Desmond, I can’t remember my own life without her. And for all of us here, a life without Auntie Tara now is unimaginable.
As a child, as a teenager, and then even as an adult, I was always making surprise visits to Auntie Tara’s house – first with Mom, Dad, and Kirk, sometimes all by myself, and then finally with Deboleena, Kheyal, and Koan. Auntie Tara and Uncle Persaud always made us feel welcome – they never made us feel that we were interrupting them or that it was not good time for us to visit. They always made me feel that their home was my home.
Some of my earliest memories are with Auntie Tara at their apartment on Lawrence Avenue. Whenever we visited them, Kirk, Karen, and I would ask if we could look at the traffic on the street below from their balcony – in my earliest memories, Desmond was still a baby, but he would join us on the balcony soon enough. Kirk was tall enough to look over the balcony wall, but Karen and I had to look through the small gap between the balcony wall and the floor. So, whenever we asked, Auntie Tara would stop what she was doing, clean the balcony rug, and put it down for us to lie on our stomachs and look at the traffic go by.
I don’t know how many times Auntie Tara cleaned that rug for us. But I feel as though she spent her whole life making us feel welcome in one way or another, making us feel – making our entire family feel – that her home was our home, too.
We will miss you, Auntie Tara – your voice, your laughter, your welcoming touch. We’re so sorry that we can’t be there to commemorate your life and to share our grief with the rest of the family, but we will make sure to pass the love that you gave us on to each other and to everyone else in our lives. You gave us so much to share.
Love,
Sean, Deboleena, Kheyal, and Koan
