Doreen, you are dearly missed.

Happy Birthday to Doreen❣️
I received Doreen’s massage/acupuncture table which I was told she wanted me to have. I am a Craniosacral Therapist. It now has a home in the trunk of my car since it is very light & can be easily moved for home visits & reiki share sessions❤️
Thanks to Doreen for all her wonderful healing times when she worked on me on her table 
I will think of you when I use it for my healing sessions with all who come to lie on it❤️

I know Doreen from our membership in The Grail, a women's spiritual and social justice movement, where Doreen's mother was also a member in the early days of the US Grail in the 1950s.  I'm grateful to have spent several days in Doreen's company during a Grail retreat of July 4 week, 2018, at the Cornwall Grail Center.  Doreen loved the Center and its land and contributed a lot to our efforts to prevent it from being sold. I think that her love of yoga, with its down-to-earth gracefulness, demonstrated her understanding of the sacredness of land, of all beings on the Earth. I admired her gardening skills and knowledge that testified to a deep commitment to the Earth. Doreen and I also shared commitment to the environmental-justice movement through activist work in several climate-justice groups   Here, from those memorable Grail days in July of 2018, is a short video of the July 4 parade in Cornwall-on-Hudson that shows Doreen's open-hearted joy in life.

Eamonn MacDonncha-( Caoineadh na dTrí Mhuire) "Lament of the Three Marys"

Katie and I were lucky to get to know Doreen. We’d missed her in 1988 when we had a cousins reunion in San Francisco. That was disappointing since I’d always enjoyed Doreen when both of our families lived just a few miles apart on Long Island in the early 1960’s. So I was happy when we connected later. We had her over to our house and made quiche, thinking that would work. That made Doreen laugh from her heart, very graciously. Later, Doreen came and cooked for us – first (and last?) time we had tofu as main course! She reached out over the years – also helping us when we planned a trip to Ireland in 2009, telling us of cousin Cliona’s Zoom memorial service in Dublin a few years ago, comparing notes on old O’Sullivan unclaimed bank accounts, meeting me in Manhattan at her workout place and taking me to the Abbey Theatre. She always connected with our kids, and remembered what each of them was most interested in. We remember her doing Yoga Tai Chi with the 3 kids. We even got to go on a double date with Doreen – we went to the Metropolitan Opera and then had dinner with Doreen and her friend, probably 15 years ago. Last time I saw Doreen was almost 3 years ago, when my daughter Meghan and I took her out to a Korean restaurant in NYC. A fun time!

We did not hear of Doreen’s suffering until 2 days after she passed. It made us very sad and we wish we had helped her. She was always gracious and warm and encouraging. She had a goodness about her, and somewhere still does. We will miss her and remember her very fondly.

I first met Doreen in the mid-1980's when I moved to SF and became another honorary member of the "Hayes House/Birdie Pool Hall/Rebiotification" group of friends. Both of us moved on from SF around the same time. We hadn't seen each other in quite a while when a mutual friend reconnected us in NYC in 2018. Doreen was so full of wonder and appreciation for the world and all of its hidden treasures. I am so sad that she's no longer with us.

Doreen and I met when her family moved to Schoharie, NY. She entered grade school where we became instant friends and that friendship has endured throughout our lives, intersecting either in NYC, Schoharie or my home in VT. We could easily pick up wherever we left off, no matter the years in between. Doreen shared her love of yoga, her spiritual discoveries, her passions and always found a reason to laugh at herself. I’m sad to lose one of my oldest friends. Peace Doreen.