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    Strolling Down Heaven's Gate
    Strolling Down Heaven's Gate
    Strolling Down Heaven's Gate
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    Strolling Down Heaven's Gate

    By Gisele B. Vincent-Page

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    With 30 years of HIV behind us, we have brought about many changes. Some are very positive; medical breakthroughs have added years to peoples' lives.
    There has also been 30 years of strife, stigma and isolation for people with HIV. Through prose and poetry, the author opens her heart to the reader to reveal
    the struggles of life with HIV in those early years. She soothingly relates the reconciliation with herself and a society that increases its understanding and compassion so
    that the same achievements occur in the social field as it has in the medical field.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateAug 29, 2011
    ISBN9781463437282
    Strolling Down Heaven's Gate
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    Gisele B. Vincent-Page

    Gisele is a 53 year old widow with three adult children. She has a degree in Dramatic Studies and a Teaching Certificate. She taught English and French to middle and senior high students for 20 years. "The first two words I wrote in a blog about two years ago were:...at last. After 25 years of living with HIV, I could speak the words, live the life I had let this virus take from me. My husband died of AIDS in 1990. I carried on, keeping up with my children, my work and appearances. I have long been obsessed with poetry and have been published in numerous websites."

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      Strolling Down Heaven's Gate - Gisele B. Vincent-Page

      Contents

      Such Gifts

      Exhausted Numb

      Time

      God’s Face

      80’S Aids Anxiety

      Angels On High

      From The Mall To The River

      Solace

      . . . Hiv… Lives… Here…

      God Touches Me

      Rainbows And Angels

      Deals And Bargains

      A Simple Day

      Knowledge… Wisdom

      Characters

      Water

      raw

      . . . . more water

      Beaches

      Angel With An Umbrella

      Tears

      Bathing In The Rain

      Remission

      Heaven’s Gate

      Just Another Storm

      Where What When

      Infinity

      Words

      Smoking And Reflecting

      Fullness Of Freedom

      Life At Winnipeg Beach

      The Gift Of Wind

      Change

      Warmth

      Tree Of Time

      God’s Rays

      God’s Brew

      A New Day

      The Divine Mood

      Last Visit

      Sitting

      poor dying me

      inhale

      Strolling Souls

      Beach Bag Block

      …..dedicated to Joelle, Yves, Guy, Amber

      I would like to acknowledge the beautiful and generous use of Diane Isaac, Walter Isaac and

      Garry Robinson's photography.

      Such Gifts

      I’ve been listening to the trees all my life.

      Fifty years later, I understand they have

      been talking to me.

      Whispering, willowing waves of branches

      and leaves. Saying we love you. We are the

      tickle in your ears, whispering words of peace.

      Soothing your eyes in times of grief.

      Sing to the joy of emptiness, we smooth away

      your fears; we bathe you in the grace of giving.

      Giving is the greatest gift.

      Giving away your name, your ego, your shame.

      Giving you forgiveness. Give what you have

      learnt. Knowledge is a sharing gift. How can it

      be a secret?

      The wind is heavenly music.

      Exhausted Numb

      This is the state I arrived in at the Palliative Care Ward at Riverview Hospital in March, 2010. I remained there till June. There was no imminent danger of death. Just a confusion and exhaustion. Sitting at home with a dog who was driving me nuts, staring at walls and windows that drove me insane. A stomach that would not function. It held on to everything I ingested and the myriad of substances that I took to make me go didn’t do much for my mental and physical constitution. I was a wonderful patient. Gisele is self-directed the nurse would tell her students who tagged along with her and they would marvel. They spent what seemed like hours taking notes about everything. I babbled about

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