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The beginning of you, the first breath of your existence, every cell in my body became new with your newness. I inhaled your breath and...

You had so many observations to make. At 2yrs. you were using complete sentences. “The sun won’t come down because the sun is stuck. The...

Your big imagination continued throughout your youth. Many of the crazy stories you made up while jumping on the bed (the energy level...

At Rainbow Falls in Yosemite, you were maybe 4 years old.and already running up the hills like a mountain goat. The other boys looked on...

In kindergarten, while the class sat in a neat circle, you couldn’t stop wiggling. Your teacher finally stopped what she was doing,...

It wasn’t that you couldn’t sit still. I would read to you for hours from the Oz books, fairy tales, anything fantasy when you were...

I’ll never forget the care with which you dressed yourself, at the age of 9 for Grandy’s funeral. You loved your grandfather dearly, but...

“Nonna, can we watch Das Reingold? I’ve read all about it” says Ari. “What? You want to listen to Wagner? Oh brother!” Replied Nonna....

Ari and Ethan’s McGuire/ McDonald Barrrrrr Mitvah was a coalescence of hard work, family togetherness, and perseverance. Cantor Rita...

Ari’s first girlfriend. Eat your heart out Aoife!

Ari and Cousin Ethan help out in the San Francisco Jewish Community Preschool

I had 23 years of that dreamy gaze of yours Ari, and now I walk. Your gentleness, your creativity, your heart of gold… moved me. You...

I am not alone today. You are with me in every soul filled way. Do you remember when you were little, and you looked at things very...

Do you see? That subtle grade of color within you, the nuance of your ways. One glance told you everything about that person. You saw...

Do you remember The Thinker? I asked you what he was thinking about, and you looked up intently and said “He’s thinking about the whole...

Are you in the ocean? In the Air? My darling boy, I see you everywhere. I’m trying to look beyond the dying of the light. I breathe you...

I know what you’re trying to tell me Ari. You’re sorry. You still don’t know what happened. It’s not your fault Ari. Don’t blame...

So much turmoil in the loss of you Ari, I walk in your shadow, I walk in your light. Without you, my life is Only dimly bright.

What is the essence of your significance to me? You were everything to me. The purest love in all the universe. “…My only sunshine…”...

And I weep for your big brown eyes, your warm affectionate hands, Your perfect toes and your singular joyful smile and laugh. Those...