My Favorite Cousin

I'd like to post all about Beate and what a wonderful person she was and how much she'll be missed and how sad it is to realize that she's really, truly gone (memorials are places where such realizations tend to really grab hold), but I can't find words. I have only sounds and images... but they're only in my head, and in my heart.

I'm staying with my favorite cousin Claudia, whom I adore. She's as close to a sister as I have and we share many, many sisterly childhood memories -- some of which I really must write about someday! But tonight I'm too tired to write anything of substance; all I can do is post a photo of Claudia and me as well as Claudia with her wonderful and very beautiful family.