Saturday, May 31, 2014

The Kindness of Remembering Together

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
Bruce Lee

This afternoon, I ran into the son of a dear friend who died 18 months ago.  The son had seen me enter a restaurant where he was eating and came to our table to say hello.  He showed me a photo in which his sister looked uncannily like their mother.  My hair stood on end, we hugged, our eyes filled with tears...  When my family and I were leaving the restaurant, we looked for the son.  He saw us and again got up from his table to say goodbye.

My friend -- his mother -- is missed very much and, of course, by no one more than her family.  I was very touched by this young man's kindness in making an effort to say hello to me and in his giving us both an opportunity to remember her -- together.

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