“the joy I felt to hear that familiar Bronx accent”

from Linda Fredericks

Hi Alice, Dan and Chris,

I wanted to thank you all for creating this wonderful website honoring the amazing life of your mom, and the mothering spirit for so many of us that she took into her life and nurtured.

I’ve only known her one short year through the aging to saging ZOOM group at the UU Church, and yet in that short period of time she became an essential lifeline of strength and hope for me and the aging women who participate.

We were all movers and shakers in social programs in our younger years, and she has guided us to find our peace in our older years when we could no longer physically participate as we had in our youth.

I especially thank you for working with the UU church to put into place the two podcasts that she left covering both her personal journey and that of the UU San Mateo congregation.

I cannot express in words the joy I felt to hear that familiar Bronx accent reverberating through the airwaves. It will be a place I can go to when I need a boost any time in the future.

Thank you again, her wonderful children, for sharing your mother with all of us who cared.