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This lovely tribute tells me that she was blessed with a long, meaningful life and even through the hardships, she fought for her dignity. She surely leaves an important legacy for her family and all who knew her.

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Dignity and meaning are everything.

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Thank you for sharing such a beautiful and inspiring piece. Peace and love to you and your family❤️.

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That was lovely. Thanks for sharing.

My Grandma, 1910-1983, lived with me when I was a child. She woke me up every morning by singing “you are my sunshine”.

A great memory to hear your Grams singing it. You made my Sunday morning. ❤️

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Thanks for sharing. It’s a beautiful song.

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Yuri, grandmother June must have been amazing. She saw some amazing changes in the world during her life (just think what the world was like in 1930), and I'm happy to hear she passed peacefully after living through a quite tumultuous age of world history. It's rare these days to hear of peaceful, old-age passings.

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Love Abides

Often we are found in our grief and comforted
   

calmed by some kindness
   

brought alive again by beauty
   

that catches us undefended.

Even when the sun is most thin and far


even at the hour the storm is at its height


we can go through
   

renewal nests within sorrow
   

love abides, even beyond anger, beyond death.

We are held in an embrace invisible but infinite


moving with all creation


between wholeness and fragmentation


moving always toward the one.

Small joys and great sorrows pass


and we, with steps uncertain, move on


to whatever is next

but continually seen, heard, held


by Life infinite and remote, intimate and abiding.

Love, do not let us go.       

Amen.

Barbara Pescan

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Thank you. Beautiful eulogy. My 91-yr old mother was diagnosed with aggressive inoperable lung cancer Friday.

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Thank you, Kurt. Prayers for you and your mother.

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My God, that was beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.

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This is beautiful, Yuri. I am sorry for your loss.

"I will keep myself busy!" What an old school, tough mentality after everything she went through. She is an example to us all.

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Thank you. Resonances with my own experiences.

Reverence both for a deeply-layered life lived and for the families and cultures that respect those who have attained wisdom and pass on love and courage to those receptive.

To do this in a degenerate teenage Western culture that is marked by shallowness, hatred and division is an achievement and still an aim for those with the presence of mind to keep their heads, intuition and bravery in the present malevolent Western energy trying to destroy the world.

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A beautiful tribute. Rest in Peace ♥️☀️☮️🌈🏁

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Rest in peace and sunshine ☀️🙏🏾

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Thank you for sharing your heart and your beautiful Grandmother's life....what a fine fine example!!

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Beautiful, Yuri! I hope Yulia can remember her, and follow in that incredible woman’s journey. Ty for sharing that.

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The great eulogies,such as this one are inspirational and go beyond mere summary of a life.

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Condolences and thanks for sharing the uplifting eulogy

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I sing that song all the time. I have since my kids were born. What a blessing to have such a wonderful, beautiful soul in your lives. I pray your family is comforted. Thank you for sharing.

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