Welcome to a portion of sister Lynn's GORGEOUS condo

 This is my sister Lynn's dining room, so tiny it looks like it's in a doll house. It's a tribute to our late legendary Now & Then Shop.

How can we enlarge it, Readers. You're smart, please lemme know. 

YELLOW TULIPS FOR AUNT SELMA

Nothing was better, Aunt Selma, than
visiting you and the whole gang on
Sundays. If we were lucky, you'd have a
beef brisket ready to eat, tender, mouth-watering,
bought no doubt from Heinen's where we too used to shop.

How I admired your jet-black hair. Was my aunt a movie star
like beauties in soap operas we would watch, As the World
Turns and Days of Our Lives?

Please, Almighty, don't remind me that those days are gone.
Gone like swaths of snow melting like cream puffs from
the roof tops and sidewalks.

Visitors, so many. Now gone to play among the stars and constellations.
Is Gramma Green there? Mom, with her smiley white sneakers?

Evelyn and Eddie Garber, their brilliant son, Donny, whose shiny
bald pate bounced with moonbeams in the night.

And that husband of yours, Aunt Selma, how we loved our Uncle Marv, a champion reader of both
Ogden Nash and Winston Churchill. Learned as Plato or Sophocles.

And your Linda, ah, Linda, with her quick wit and husband, Jack, who called you Selma, Dear.

How I'd marvel every time I came over, took off my shoes, while wondering what was for dessert.

Today is dessert. From all the people who love you. Who will never forget you.
Will Mark put you in a million-dollar portrait?

One hundred and two.
Does the Cleveland Jewish News have your photo
your crown of black hair, pink cheeks that Mama Eva
must have pinched when you were a little girl.

When the sun sets tonight
it will be the first time
that Aunt Selma is free of the woes
of the world and can claim her place
in Paradise as God welcomes you Home.

.........

Here is Lynn's wonderful remembrance:

Tonight I lit two candles in memory of our dear aunt Selma. 
The original brass candlesticks were from my mom/Bernice. 
She used them for many many decades to celebrate holidays and special occasions. 
Tonight they flickered with a warm flame and were lit just for you Aunt Selma. 
You are a treasure and will always shine on in our hearts. 
Rest in peace beautiful lady. 

Love, Lynn and Family