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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Guestbook is Expiring Soon...Please Contribute To Tribute!

So I was messing around on the Internet this evening, when I decided to visit my grandfather Fouad's online obituary.  On his obituary, it has a short biography of his life and some of his family members names.  There is also an online guestbook, where people can express their condolences or feelings about my grandfather.  He died on April 29th of last year, so the guestbook has been up for quite a while.  I didn't write a message though.  I don't know why.  It's not because I was too lazy too or didn't feel like it.  I just couldn't.  My thoughts, my words, they weren't in the right place.  And now, almost a year later, I decided I was ready.
Many members of the Matta family have already 'wrote' in it.  There are some truly beautiful ones on there.  One of my favorites (and the saddest) was my little cousin Anthony's.  Another touching one was my aunt's husband, my uncle Matt's.
I feel like even if I never knew Fouad Matta, after reading some of the wonderful messages from people who cared and loved him, I would have been able to sense what kind of person he was.  There were a couple of words that kept on appearing, such as, heart, love, intelligence, good humor, smile, eyes, admired, generosity, calmness, peace, and my favorite, wisdom.
I plan to do a special tribute to my grandfather the date of his birth (March 14) and the date of his death.  I would be happy to add a personal message from you about him, his past, or how he affected you during his lifetime.  If you would like to contribute just send one to my email, or leave a comment on any of my posts from past or in the future saying you would like to, and I'll give you my email address (Though considering you all are my family, I'm sure you already have it.)
Also, I noticed that the online guestbook will expire May1st of 2011.  In order to keep those heartfelt and warm messages alive, and therefore memory of my grandfather, on one those tributes to him I will try to take all those messages from the guestbook and add it to it.  So if you have not written anything already, but would like to, this is the link:
http://www.legacy.com/guestbook/bostonglobe/guestbook.aspx?n=fouad-matta&pid=142374596
and to the obituary:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=fouad-george-matta&pid=142374596
or you can Google Fouad Matta, and his obituary is the first link that comes up.

There really isn't a point to this post other than to remind us all of the wonderful, loving, gentle man that my grandfather was.  I also would recommend you go read all the beautiful messages left in his honor on his guestbook.  There are 25 entries in all. 

So serious this post is, eh?  Well, I'm not always a sarcastic lunatic you know!

Love you Jido, and family, with all my heart!
Danielle

3 comments:

  1. Please tell me if you are interested in contributing!

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  2. I want to contribute in pics for now. I'll figure out a way to do a online slide show.

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