<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Cynthia,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for sharing those final moments of Bob’s life. My heart and prayers are with you as we celebrate the full and complete life of Bob who was such a contribution to the world. The partnership that you two were truly did make a visible difference in the world. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Much love to you,</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 16, 2018, at 09:31 , Holcombe Wanda via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI Display"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Dear Cynthia,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI Display"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Thanks for sharing with us your tribute to Bob life. What a gift it was to know and work in mission together with Bob at various times. My heart and prayers are with you and Family as you create the next pathway in your life....keep singing💗</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI Display"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Grace and Peace,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI Display"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Wanda</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI Display"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI Display"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-BoldItalic'; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 23.00pt" class="">A Holy Pause</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI Display"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 27.4px;" class=""><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay"; font-size: 23pt;" class="">"We are continually crossing thresholds in our lives....when time becomes a transition space....</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI Display"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 27.4px;" class=""><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay"; font-size: 23pt;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI Display"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay"; font-size: 23pt;" class="">In the monastic tradition, </span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay-Italic"; font-style: italic; font-size: 23pt;" class="">statio</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay"; font-size: 23pt;" class=""> is the practice ......of acknowledgment that in the space of transition and threshold is a sacred dimension, a holy pause... This </span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay-Italic"; font-style: italic; font-size: 23pt;" class="">place between</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay"; font-size: 23pt;" class=""> is a place of stillness, ......where we prepare for what comes next."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><span style="font-style: italic;" class="">Illuminating the Way</span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">by Christine Valters Painter</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay"; font-size: 23pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534351972956_6258" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534351972956_6257" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534351972956_6256" class=""> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534351972956_6255" class=""> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534351972956_6260" class=""> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534351972956_6442" class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight:bold;" class="">From:</span></b> Cynthia Vance via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a> <br class=""><b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Cc:</span></b> Cynthia Vance <<a href="mailto:facilitationfla@aol.com" class="">facilitationfla@aol.com</a>><br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:30 AM<br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Subject:</span></b> [Dialogue] from Cynthia Vance<br class=""> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534351972956_6444"><br class=""><div id="yiv0526912795" class=""><font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534351972956_6456" class="">
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11 I enrolled him in Hospice at Home, due to his increasing symptoms from (possibly)
Lewy Body dementia and I cared for him since then. Last Sunday morning he
awoke with extreme difficulties. The Hospice nurse came and felt he probably had
a 'neurological event' the Saturday evening before, perhaps while
sleeping. She took him to the Venice Hospice House at 6pm that
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visited him 90 minutes later. He was very calm but not very responsive. I shared
my reflections as I showed him 4 photos -- his parents, his brothers Neil and
Denny, our doxies Star and Matilda and finally Bob and me. I also read two
poems I had written (about the dogs!) and a love letter highlighting and
thanking him for the special times we shared as a team in our community service/civil
rights efforts, followed by our strategic planning consulting, and finally in our
various nature adventures. We had had these discussions before and had agreed
that history had given us a fine ride! – and that hopefully we made the world a
little better.<span style="margin:0px;" class=""> </span>He died peacefully 5
hours later, 1:30 am, early Monday morning. </span></div>
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grateful for the wonderful life and marriage we had. I could ask for no
more. Our home was one of peace, love, respect, creative planning and always in
anticipation of our next birding or butterflying adventure.<span style="margin:0px;" class=""> </span>He was always kind to others and was a
terrific partner in our life work together! <span style="margin:0px;" class=""> </span></span></div>
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of you, our colleagues over the years, wrote letters to him or telephoned him
in the past 10 days. He was so pleased to hear from you and I’m grateful
that you reached out to us. You shared your appreciation of his life and
brought us great joy.</span></div>
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sister, Cecily, has been with me for 2 days and as an R.N. has given me
guidance during this journey. Other friends locally have compassionately
reached out to me.</span></div>
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has donated his brain to the University of Miami Brain Endowment Bank to both
confirm (or not) the diagnosis and to contribute to their research.<span style="margin:0px;" class=""> </span>We will be spreading his ashes in our
Butterfly Garden and the Gulf of Mexico where he </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">proudly completed 990 SCUBA dives to collect hundreds of
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