Famous Last Words

Kever Rochel (Rachel's Tomb), Bethlehem, 1841

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"This is what the Lord says: Rachel...restrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded...there is hope for your future....your children will return to their own land." Jeremiah 31:15-17
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Do you want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask them how they want to be remembered.



Reading through Khaled Hosseini's " A Thousand Splendid Suns" in yet another congested train station, I was struck by a particular passage:

". . . she (left) the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She (left) it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last."

I couldn't think of a more beautiful set of words for my epitaph.