You must all think I’m crazy, but I just keep finding boxes with Anita’s papers in them. It’s like she never threw anything away! Tonight I was moving some boxes that I thought had photos and frames in them but a couple had papers too. Some of them were dated around 1999, the time she [...]
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At Anita’s funeral, ten people stood up and gave some remarkable testamonials about her life. I transcribed these and wanted to share them with everyone. (This is kind of a long one.) Kirstin Larson I’m Kirstin. I’ve been friends with Anita since law school. In fact, I sat next to her through many, many classes which was [...] Digging through a box in her office, I found an old wall post. The way to happiness: keep your heart from from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a [...] I suppose we all get this feeling sometimes. It doesn’t take a spouse’s death to make you feel overwhelmed, just the perception that you have more than you can handle at some point in the day. It seems rather comical to me that although time seems to be moving SO slowly, I still get these [...] Anita and I had what I would call a quiet faith. We did not belong to a church and, although we talked about faith, Christ and God ad nauseum, we rarely spoke of those things to other people. So, upon Anita’s death, I find that God is using this situation to task me with two things. [...] Anita was not really a yoga practitioner, but she liked Rodney Yee. I started doing yoga in 1999 (not so much recently) and Yee soon became my favorite yogi. For those who don’t know him, he is a slight Asian man, a former dancer, with an amazing philosophy of life. Anita had dome some yoga videos [...] |
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