Mi más sentido pésame, Doña Rosa para usted y toda su familia. Un fuerte abrazo.

This passage from one of my favorite books reminds me of our sweet friend and neighbor.
Her legacy is a life well lived, the family and friends she cultivated, the sweet smile forever etched in our memory. I need to go no further than to look across our street to remember her...she will forever walk on Maplecrest Lane.

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."