Category: Tributes

Posted by:IsisEmail:Drisisvanloon@gmail.com

December 2009. Hannukah was early that year. It was a tough period in my life and Sarah invited me to her and Donimo’s Hannukah party. This was the first time I met Donimo. I remember how appreciative I felt, welcomed into their home, and introduced to their close-knit community of friends. My first impression of […]

This photo was taken on April 9. It was the first time in months that Donimo had been on the patio – had been downstairs. So much easier than either one of us expected.  From then on I carried her downstairs in the early afternoon and back upstairs in the early evening almost every day. […]

New Year Eve 1999 I have so many stories of Donimo from the over 20 years we have known each other, and most of them involve Sarah in one way or another. One that comes to mind is spending New Year’s 1999, Y2K with S+D. In the end it was just a computer problem with the date […]

In the summer and fall of 2018, a community of Donimo’s friends helped fundraise for her to purchase a mobility aid that held huge hope for greater independence for her. The technology seemed amazing. The innovative design, like Donimo herself, was sleek, edgy and polished. It was a handsome vehicle. Shortly after the purchase, Donimo, […]

Dining out with Donimo (and Sarah) in the summer of 2018. Donimo always knew where we could find the best food in Vancouver.

I have so many happy memories of my beautiful daughter and daughter-in-law. When we first met Donimo, my wife Midge called the two of them a “vision of loveliness.”

by Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Joanna Macy I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. I circle around God, around the primordial tower. I’ve been circling for thousands of years and I still don’t know: am I […]