23 °F December 09, 2013 River Reporter Facebook pageTRR
TwitterRSS Search Login   Cindy Adams, left, and her daughter,
Kristina. Contributed photo  As a response to a college
assignment, Kristina once wrote a paper entitled “What would you
do if you had only 37 days to live?” She wrote, “I would rise
before the sun and watch it emerge over fields. I would sleep
late and make chocolate chip pancakes. I would eat lunch at the
counter. I would have dessert before dinner. I would play
racquetball and go kayaking. I would meet a real cowboy. I would
take hundreds of photographs. I would be happy, because where
there is happiness there is meaning and where there is meaning
there is happiness.”  Because of her close brush with death
earlier in her life, she had picked a number of quotes that
might be used at her funeral. One of them, from Eleanor
Roosevelt, said, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by
every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the
face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have l