Reflection by Edgar Cahn
On this day, we celebrate the quality of life that a retired physician, Myra Adamthwaite, had because of the Phoenixville Area Time Bank. We do not know for how many patients over how many years Dr. Myra provided care. We do know that age related disability did not stop her giving through the TimeBank and that she, in accepting care, gave purpose and meaning to the lives of others. In providing rides, shopping trips, errands, she gave. And a reciprocal web of caring tended to her house, her yard, her cat, her computer enabling her to remain in her home connected with her community. And that connectedness continued to her every last day in hospice. Her memory and the connectivity she inspired remain a light and a beacon. Just perhaps, at this moment, it seems fitting to see her passing embraced by the love of others in the worlds of Kahlil Gibran:
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides,
that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
By this tribute, may Myra truly sing, climb, and dance.
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