Wednesday, August 22, 2012

thoughts of enduring energy

shared by VJ Rabuy, her sister

I am currently reading a young adult novel that had a great insight about people dying, but not really “going away”. I thought it was so poetic I wanted to share it here.

“Maybe if you thought about them, people never really disappeared. It sounded so corny, but there was a scientific explanation for it, too. If you believed that thoughts were energy and energy is matter (E=mc2) and matter never disappears, then a person can never truly leave you unless you stop thinking about them. Everything you shared with a person is still there swirling around in the universe. Love ... might be real. And love endures. Relationships endure. Because thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter never disappears.” (from The Probability of Miracles by Wendy Wunder)

Cyn, I know you are no longer of this earth, but sometimes I feel you on earth. I'm thankful for the little things that make me think of you. I think about how much you would have enjoyed Reese's minis and can see you saying, "Why did they not think of these sooner?!" I'm thankful for every little thing that keeps your spirit alive in my life.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

thoughts of what's in a name

shared by Marlo R. Beall, her sister

Cindy's full name is Cynthia Eugenia Pesigan Rabuy. And for the longest time, she was not very forthcoming about telling people that her middle name was Eugenia.

I don't quite remember why she didn't like to tell people... maybe because she didn't like the name... or maybe she just liked keeping it a secret. Whatever the reason, I distinctly remember that she covered up the "Eugenia" on her driver's license. I think she used the thin border that you find on the edge of a booklet of self-adhesive postage stamps to cover up the name. However, I think she was more open about sharing it as she got older.

Cyn was given the middle name Eugenia in honor of our great grandmother, our dad's mom's mom, whose first name was Eugenia. I think it's a pretty rare name. Although I have yet to meet someone named Eugenia, whenever I do come across the name, it makes me think of Cyn. For example, one of the streets in our neighborhood is named Eugenia Court. It's about two blocks from our house. I don't drive by it very often, but whenever I do, I take a minute to look at the street sign and smile.