Several years ago I was able to go to New Zealand and share with our colleagues their at a Maori Marai, the opening ritual was a song and story to communicate your connection to each other, to the land, the sea and the mountain. For me it was especially powerful since I have spent so much of my life with colleagues from Australia and New Zealand and the opportunity to sing with them and to them. I am sorry I have not spoken to the earlier deaths it has felt like so many, I feel unable to articulate how much each person has meant to me in my life. Each will be missed and each represents songs and stories that echo through my life and our lives. As for Frank, my first memory of Frank was when I was 10 and he and Aimee were with the children on the west side for breakfast or dinner Aimee was joy and light and Frank was large and serious, and a little frightening to me. In 1972, Frank taught with me on the last RSI i remember teaching. I was 18 and in Washington DC I think. He was the first teacher and I was probably third. I do not remember anything about the course except spending the evening with Frank in a bar talking about the life I was choosing. Robert Shropshire i knew only briefly in the sense of time, he had a gift of sharing and transforming. In my academy we were assigned to work together to prepare and then he was my teacher. He had a way of communicating that was at one humorous and piercing to the core of the issue. I will miss them both and they will both be with me forever. With love and respect, Larry Lawrence Philbrook, Certified ToP Facilitator Director, Institute of Cultural Affairs Taiwan www.icatw.com Tel: 8862-2871-3150 Fax: 8862-2871-2870 Skype: icalarry President ICA International/ Member Global Leadership Team ICAI Office c/o ICA Canada, 655 Queen Street East Toronto, ON. M4M 1G4 Canada www.ica-international.org