Hi everyone, welcome to Thanks for being here, a short weekly pod to remind us of the many essential

and beautiful ways we affect one another. Every Sunday I'll read a submission from a listener

of Kelly Corrigan Wonders, could be wedding vows or about

mitzvah toast, a eulogy or retirement speech.

We believe this is probably the loveliest way to tap into our better selves and remember our highest values.

We encourage you to share this podcast each week with one person you love, maybe someone

you miss and need to bring closer,

someone you want to feel your appreciation or admiration or both.

This is thanks for being here is from a listener named Kathy Coleman.

She writes, hi Kelly.

I love your podcast and listen all the time.

I'm especially touched by the thanks for being hears, and decided to submit the eulogy

I wrote for my mom. She passed a little over a year ago. I miss her every day.

My mom had pancreatic cancer and died almost a year after she was diagnosed.

Her last Mother's Day, when I was 57, I wrote a list of 57 things I was grateful for. I was going to do 85

because she was 85 but I ran out of steam. I reference what I call the 57 list in the

eulogy so I'll attach it here.

Thanks for all the work you do you make many of us feel a little less alone.

Thanks Kathy.

And now Kathy Coleman's eulogy for her mom.

My mom, Shirley, was a force of nature like gravity.

And like gravity she could be counted on, to be there quietly or in some cases

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