I was telling Kali that I joined your family when you were about 6, and from that time on I have loved you most specially. You have never ceased to amaze, impress and inspire me. You were given an amazing mind and nature and you could have applied it in oh so many ways. You applied it in the service of others, to meet a greater social, human and ethical good. I recall when you wanted to become a medical ethicist. Isn’t it interesting how the fortunes of life place us precisely where we should be. Your work with the AIDS community, is the epitome of medical ethics – in support of those with little, no, or an unappreciated often misunderstood voice, the sometimes invisible populations (even extending to their support communities, the even more invisible private world of their pets and those whom they love).
You are adored by those who know you and you help and serve even those who do not know you. Your brief 40 years on this planet have been productive and powerful, I can’t wait to watch you continue your personal growth as one of the most whole and self-realized people I have the honor to know.
I am a believer in personal choices and paths, charting and pursuing a course, balanced within the realities we have, each of us, set upon us. You have chosen a path of partner to the planet and to the people who inhabit it. You could not make me more proud to know and love you. Thank you for allowing space for me to participate in your life.
Happy Birthday, go in Peace!
