Dear Betsy,
What a paragon you are in so many ways: a leader, a challenger, a cheerleader, an energizer, a friend, a companion, a caretaker, a musician, a Mom, a sharer, an exemplar! Thank you for sharing yourself so generously, and CONGRATULATIONS on your ninetieth birthday. With all warm best wishes,
Edith Boyden
Dear Betsy,
Happy 90th! We wanted to take this chance to send our love, and to wish you the most brilliant of birthdays. There’s a poem by Aunt Janet that comes to mind, from her “Fifth Gathering,” which she apparently put together for you:
The sun carves darkness away from this world.
What is then revealed is up to us –
Whether we welcome light from stone to stone
Or smother it in darkness of our own –
Perception personal and continuous.
So rising day may gild the earth with light,
If it is not a portent of the night.
Welcoming the light from stone to stone indeed! None of us get through this without some long shadows, but you always seem able, like your brother, to find, in the astonishing world and the people in it, the wherewithal to “gild the earth with light.”
We love you so much Betsy, your enthusiasm, your appreciation of those things that ring deepest to us too – music; the beauty in nature and in words – with a truly generous ethic underlying all of it. Despite the fearsome quality of your and the Moyer family’s competence generally, it’s easier now to see the fun and joy of it all. How else could one live well?
All our love to you,
Gordon and Astrid
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BETSY. Here’s hoping this will be the best year yet for you.
Peace,
Shirley Andrews
Dear Betsy-san
90 SAI NO OTANJOBI OMEDETOOU GOZAImASU.
I respect you all. You ear the best friend for me.
I wish to thank you for your kindness to see while
Visiting in Boston.
With a lot of Love.
Kiyo