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Monday, May 18 2009 @ 02:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time |
Amir - David and I had a daughter - born on Feb 5, 2009 - 5 days before your birthday. We named her after you - Amira Jeanne. She is beautiful and mischievous - just like you! We all miss you so much. I can't wait till Amira is old enough to understand how amazing her namesake was. Maybe she will find this posting.
Love, Shosh
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Tuesday, February 10 2009 @ 06:41 PM Eastern Standard Time |
Amir,
I'm thinking of you lots on your birthday. It's been a long five years without you.
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Tuesday, December 30 2008 @ 11:36 AM Eastern Standard Time |
I was among the cohort of thirty-some students that arrived at Stanford in the Fall of 2003. So much of that time seems very far away with occasional and random memories. What I did gather, was that there was a passion (maybe even a tortured fascination!)that brought our random bunch together -- making our world better, treating kids better, figuring out the mechanics of learning, and, hopefully in the process, figuring ourselves out too. Six years later (agh), as I approach my degree completion and try to figure out where I will land next, I turn to my peers, colleagues and friends for advice and inspiration. And I remember that there are empty pockets of our original cohort. Some have left voluntarily. Some have not.
Admittedly, I was not a close friend of Amir, and my memories of him are brief images of smiles, intense listening, and an warmly open social energy that I aspire to have. His loss, for family, friends and colleagues, is truly unfathomable and as time passes, it seems more unfair. The Amir Lopatin Fellowship, however, gives me the chance to remember and renew my promises and passions -- the ones that I know that Amir and I shared. Maybe we were just friendly acquaintances for our brief time together, but his commitment to learning and life continues to find me in times and ways that I am thankful for.
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Wednesday, February 13 2008 @ 07:41 AM Eastern Standard Time |
| Hello Amiri - I miss you so much. You missed my wedding! I got married on Jan. 6, 2008 to David W. I know you were worried about me never getting married - and you would have really liked David - he is super smart and earnest like you. It was your birthday this week - boy do I miss you - I cant believe you would have been 32 You would probably be finishing your phd and launching some amazing software to revolutionize education. Amir I wake up everyday hoping its not true. You visit in my dreams and you are still the same earnest kid with messed up hair and hands up to his face when he laughs. I get so excited during those dreams that I can spend time with you. I miss you everyday. I am very resistant to moving on in my life without you in it. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. Your sis Shoshi
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Sunday, February 10 2008 @ 09:35 AM Eastern Standard Time |
Thinking about Amir today on his birthday. At least, that's what the Friendster reminder tells me. I could never remember when his birthday was. My parents encouraged me to take my old Ramaz yearbooks home with me from their apartment today, and I was looking through them at the photos of Amir and reading some of his poetry in the back. I remembered this one time in the afterschool poetry club which maybe was called Parallax or maybe that was just the magazine... anyway me John and Amir were listening to a girl (Suzie Gallin (sp?) or maybe someone entirely else) read a poem about skinny-dipping. When she was done Amir leaned over and loudly whispered how excited it made him. I remember Dr. Honig pretended to be shocked.
I visited him at Brown one year and we saw Bob Dylan play and went to some party... and I remember Amir talking through the intercom to some girl he liked and I heard a sweetness in his voice I'd never heard before. That sweetness is what I remember most about Amir.
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Friday, August 24 2007 @ 12:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time |
It is hard to believe that three years (more) have gone by. If you were here, you would be proud of how your friends remember you, in actions as well as words. NYCpul is continuing. People are giving to charities in your name, and charities named after you. Isn't it amazing that sometimes you can continue to make the world a better place by leaving it, just as you could when you were here? We still miss the things you would have contributed, and the insights that you would have brought. And the empty space you left can only, and at best, resolve into an Amir shaped scar to remind us of what might have been... but those reminders are still prompting people to change the world. In small ways. In their ways. but little by little, and in the right directions (I hope).
That is something of which I think you might have been proud.
Love,
Uri
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Monday, June 04 2007 @ 03:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time |
| Over three years have passed since your death. I have largely healed from the pain as much as anyone can say that. I've even used my experience to console bereaved parents. I feel you are a guiding angel who watches over me and I feel your spirit and thank you for your kindness toward me. I miss you.
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Thursday, March 22 2007 @ 09:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time |
| Three years later and you are still bringing us together.
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Thursday, October 12 2006 @ 07:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time |
| This is my second year teaching art in southwest Philly. My students often ask about my daughter, Mira (not the older ones though... the 7th graders think I'm a chump). They want to know about her name, and how its similar to theirs (Amir and Amirah are very popular African American names these days. I must have over 20 students named Amir, Ameer, Ahmear, Imir, Amira, Amirah, etc.) Then I think about Amir... although I don't have good stories for them... the ones I remember are like how on September 11th he rode his bike from the Upper West Side to the World Trade Center after he heard that it had been hit (if I remember correctly he wanted to take photos), only to arrive just as it was collapsing (he told me that was one of the stupidest things he ever did). And I can't tell them about our high school antics, which generally aren't suitable. Mostly though I just tell them that Amir was someone very important to me. It's nice being able to hear his name so many times throughout my day, especially since they are such happy and vibrant children. Loss is a curious thing; some very small things bring on sadness, but more often they bring joy.
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Sunday, September 10 2006 @ 08:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time |
| I was deeply touched and moved by Jonathan's speech on the Amir's ride 2006. I think it's a mitzvah to do Amir's ride the day before the 5th anniversary of 9/11. The Amir Lopatin Fund and the Amir's ride are all about turning tragedy into goodness and using trauma as a way to heal the world. My thoughts are with you on this day of Amir's Ride 2006. He will always hold a special place in my heart.
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