Quotes

Education and Career

“What counts in life is not the fact that we lived, it is the difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we led.” Nelson Mandela

Courtship with Bob

“ ‘Why not?’ is a slogan for an interesting life.” Mason Cooley

Journals and Season Books

For everything there is a season…A time to break down, and a time to build up: a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance. Ecclesiastes 3:14

Music

“I’m for whatever gets you through the night.” Frank Sinatra

An Activist

“There’s a moment when you have to choose whether to be silent or to stand up.” Malala Yousafzal, Pakinstani Activist for Female Education

Pam’s moment came when she would go to Golden West College at age 40 no matter what the cost and the world became a better place.

Family

Not a quote: Just a feeling of happiness deep in my heart. The family was the foundation of Pam’s and my 37 years of happiness.

Friends

“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.” The Apocrypha

“We are real friends now because we have been able to share some painful experiences in our private lives.” May Sarton

Gone But Not Forgotten

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:7-8

“For when is death not within ourselves?…..Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.” Heraclitus

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”

William Penn

I hold in my heart the memory of Pam