G is for generosity, giving from a large heart to those in need. R reminds me of her radiance, running throughout her smile of insouciance... And A takes me to the earlier days of her being so animated that N then becomes, naturally, the necessity to remember her this way. Now dining with the divine, D reminds me of her dying but M marks my memories with her mindful magnificence. And for this, another A because she's just that amazing, that her absence -although now abundant- is always alight with her angelic life.
Prepared for the memorial service of Jeanette O'Brien Nov. 11, 1923 - July 2, 2014