From Heather on 12/07/2013

You've made a difference in our world. You touched the lives of so many and the goodness that you shared with the world will continue to flow. My sympathy also to those in the community that got to know my dear Aunt Penny. Although our family is not physically near, we acknowledge this loss in your lives as well. Here's an excerpt that my daughter so appropriately pulled from Penny's blog (http://pennys2pence.wordpress.com/): "A wise man once taught me that if you can’t find the answer to a big life question, it may be that you are asking the wrong question. “Why him?” “Why not her?” “What if I had…” “What if they hadn’t…” are questions that have no meaningful answers. The questions that we can begin to explore, that can help us move forward, are questions about things we can control. That terrible night we all came to a new understanding of the nature of evil and destruction. Maybe the most important question we can ask ourselves and act on is “What values do I want to be clearly visible in the way I live my life?” Reclaiming our lives from the paralysis of fear will mean accepting the randomness of life and making ordinary decisions every day based not on that fear but on the values by which we want to be remembered." May we all take actions each day that we can be proud of.