In Death's Shadow

For my kind, funny, most generous friend,

Sara Ann Freed

1945-2003

"Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners… and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard."

Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: Wednesday (1849)

"Come like an evening shadow, Death!

So stealthily, so silently!

And shut mine eyes, and steal my breath."

CAROLINE SOUTHEY (1787-1854),To Death