Welcome to thanks for being here. Very short pod that comes out every Sunday morning as

Sundays are such a good time to let go of the day to day and touch base with what matters,

what will matter and what will have mattered. The answer to that question for me is often

found in ceremonies I could watch strangers get married once a week and I'm even more affected

by funerals, sitting in a service, taking in the story of one life. Just another ordinary

person who they loved and who loved them. In a way, eulogies are about the most succinct

source of clarity and direction I can think of. So I ask listeners who have lost someone dear

to share their words and every week I'll read one eulogy here so that we don't forget

there is a point to the pain we have much to offer. We affect each other deeply and that ordinary

lives are really kind of exquisite when you look at them closely. This is thanks for being here.

This week's thanks for being here is a really kind of incredible eulogy for a 17-year-old named

Charlie Rose who was the younger brother of Harry Rose who was a 19-year-old freshman at Georgetown

when he wrote and delivered this beautiful eulogy. A heart is not judged by how much you love

but by how much you are loved by others. That's what the Wizard of Oz tells Dorothy the Tin Man,

the scarecrow, and the cowardly lion at the end of their journey to find home a heart, a brain,

and courage. I think that by all of you here today let there be no doubt about how much Charlie

loved and was loved. If you knew Charlie before middle school you probably knew about how much he

loved the Wizard of Oz. In fact Charlie loved everything fantastical, mermaids, dragons, unicorns,

the whole like. I'm sure a lot of you will remember the leprechaun craze of 2007 when Charlie was

visited by a leprechaun that left him a piece of my grandmother's costume jewelry and then told

all his friends that not only was he visited by a leprechaun but that they too could be visited by

leprechauns as long as they followed the prescribed protocol. This set off a long chain of

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