Sharon

Sharon passed away this morning just after 8:00 a.m. His beautiful, loving wife, as Jeff described her; Laura and Tom's beautiful, loving mother; our beautiful, loving friend.

Those two words pretty much sum Sharon up. She was beautiful on the outside, for sure, and even more beautiful within. Always smiling, always kind, so healthy and strong, quick to laugh at life and its many funny moments, quick to help a friend.
Here's a photo I like of her with Laura that Nickie took in Budapest.

Jeff, Laura, Tom and Sharon's mother were with her at the end, which brings great comfort to know.

I keep thinking of the image I posted in April from a guru/guide in California:

"The human personality self could be likened to your left thumb as
you are sitting in a cathedral where there is beautiful architecture,
and colored glass, and holy sounds being made by a choir. If you
turned your attention fully to your thumb, you would not notice any of
that. You would only notice your thumb.

As a soul, you are sitting in a cathedral of eternal love, and
perfection, and creativity, and beauty, and goodness. And, a certain
part of your attention is focusing on your thumb. In other words, what
you experience as you-as-a-human is a small portion of the attention,
or the awareness, of you-as-an-eternal soul. The rest of the awareness
of you-as-an-eternal-soul is blocked out from your human awareness.

When your body meets death, that 'sliver' of soul consciousness
that has been focusing on its thumb is turned back to the full
attention in the cathedral. What you experience as you simply stops
being small, and it becomes large. It does not vanish. So, your human
self does not vanish. It simply wakes up to its existence as an
eternal soul. Nothing is lost."

This is how I want to think of her, waking up to the full stupendous wondrousness of the whole cathedral -- with who she is and all that she is having gotten that much bigger, more beautiful and overflowing with love and peace and joy. That's how I want to think of Sharon from now on.