My family & Betsy's connections go back more than 40 years, when we all lived in New England. Our connection to Betsy began in Connecticut when Jimmy consulted with us as we were setting up a therapy institute. And so, in that young and vibrant world, we met the young and enormously vibrant Betsy.
In the decades since, as the paths of our families have unwound across time and space, I have shared many worlds with Betsy: different times, different places, different activities... My daughter Jade spent parts of various summer vacations with her and the girls - Jade adored Betsy and called her her favorite person. Though my business world generally focused more explicitly with Jimmy, the entity I worked with - from business to play to cosmic searching - was always JIMANDBETSY, a lovingly fused portmanteau, a hybrid deity that modelled beautifully and simultaneously both inseparability and individuality.
DEPTH and BREADTH - that's what stands out for me in my Betsy file. Betsy's engagement with the world - with nature, with art, with friends, with politics, absolutley with her family - has always been rooted in the deepest, widest entanglement with Source. Brilliant but not showy in her swaying limbs, but always radiating this solid and enchanting presence, Betsy made clear that to be human is to live in harmony with all the material and transcendant fibers that link our many worlds.
And now we must stay in love with her in this world while she has travelled to the next. I'm sure that just as we all here hold and write these celebrations of her, the folks in that next world are already starting to take notes...
yes how important to stay in love with her in this world..