Fall festivals, Christmas lights, pumpkin walks, anything that felt like a reason to get into the spirit of the season, Liz was always in. The pictures shared are so special to me because time we spent together was always filled with so much joy and light. Seeing it through the boys’ eyes, but also very much her own, is something I will never let go of. We didn’t have years together, but the time we did share was full of simple, meaningful moments I will cherish forever. 

 Liz always reminded me of how much light I bring, but the reality is she brought more light than I could ever explain to every memory I have with her.✨

Today, Liz sent me the ending from "The Little Prince" (twice) which was one of her favorite books. I want to share it with you all:

"And at night you will look up at the stars. Where I live everything is so small

that I cannot show you where my star is to be found. It is better, like that. My

star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the

stars in the heavens... they will all be your friends. And, besides, I am going to

make you a present..."

He laughed again.

"Ah, little prince, dear little prince! I love to hear that laughter!"

"That is my present. Just that. It will be as it was when we drank the water..."

"What are you trying to say?"

"All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for

different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others

they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars,

they are problems . For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars

are silent. You-- you alone-- will have the stars as no one else has them--"

"What are you trying to say?"

"In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so

it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...

you-- only you-- will have stars that can laugh!"

And he laughed again.

"And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be

content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want

to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that

pleasure... and your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing

as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby

trick that I shall have played on you..."

And he laughed again.

"It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little

bells that knew how to laugh..."

And he laughed.