Thanks For Being Here Amanda's Eulogy for Cathy

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Detweiler wrote this kind and humorous eulogy for her dear friend Cathy. Cathy was generous, beautiful, intelligent and had a magnetic personality but the thing that meant the most to her close friends and family was the judgement-free, no holds barred, all-consuming love she poured into each of them.

In this time where human connection has become so fleeting - may we all follow Cathy’s example and take five seconds to send a note to someone we love and appreciate.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to thanks for being here a short weekly pod to remind us of the many
0:06.0	essential and beautiful ways we affect one another. Every Sunday I'll read a submission
0:12.2	from a listener of Kelly Corrigan Wonders, could be wedding vows or about mitzvah toast,
0:16.8	a eulogy or retirement speech. We believe this is probably the loveliest way to tap into
0:22.9	our better selves and remember our highest values. We encourage you to share this podcast
0:28.5	each week with one person you love. Maybe someone you miss and need to bring closer.
0:33.6	Someone you want to feel your appreciation or admiration or both.
0:38.8	This is thanks for being here.
0:46.7	Today's thanks for being here comes from a woman named Amanda Dettweiler.
0:51.5	Kelly Corrigan, I'm a huge fan, have gobbled up all your books on Audible and listen to all pods
0:56.4	and just generally appreciate you. I have a 16-year-old and since your kids are just a smidge
1:00.6	older, I get little crumbs of hope for the future. I have a friend Kathy Caesar, who passed away
1:06.9	quickly and unexpectedly in November, leaving three kids behind. Kathy was Richmond class of 1991.
1:14.8	I think you may know her friend Heidi Ziegler, also 91 who is from Wayne.
1:19.2	Kathy was my best friend along with two other girls for the last 40 years. We communicated nearly
1:24.8	every day letters in the late 80s to WhatsApp until she went into the hospital. I've never met
1:31.6	someone that has drawn more people in, more close relationships that lasted for years.
1:38.6	The lot of us Philly hometown friends and the Richmond Tulane and Emery friends have become
1:44.0	close and are unraveling and dissecting the magic of Kathy, plans for her kids and trying to
1:50.0	understand what happened. I am sending along the eulogy I did. I didn't do her justice and I was
1:56.7	too hopeful to get a laugh what a weird thing to do at a service. Despite my concerns, I couldn't
2:02.4	not send it because it would be such an honor to have it read. Also, I feel like you helped inform
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