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Dear Mr. and Mrs. Morgenstern,My husband Steven Toplitz, a bike racer and music store owner in Amherst, MA met Nancy briefly in Majorca and later signed up at a race to receive a copy of your book of letters about Nancy. Though he has not yet read the book, I have been in the process of reading every inspiring letter. As a piano professor at the University of Massachusetts and an orchestral pianist with a heavy teaching load (and small hands), I am sometimes faced with huge performing projects, difficult passages to conquer and long and late hours. I love my work and my students, but I find the letters even more of an inspiration to keep going, to appreciate the ability to be present to take on these tasks and say, I can do this no matter what.Thank you for sharing these letters.If possible I would like to request... Read more
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Morgenstern,My husband Steven Toplitz, a bike racer and music store owner in Amherst, MA met Nancy briefly in Majorca and later signed up at a race to receive a copy of your book of letters about Nancy. Though he has not yet read the book, I have been in the process of reading every inspiring letter. As a piano professor at the University of Massachusetts and an orchestral pianist with a heavy teaching load (and small hands), I am sometimes faced with huge performing projects, difficult passages to conquer and long and late hours. I love my work and my students, but I find the letters even more of an inspiration to keep going, to appreciate the ability to be present to take on these tasks and say, I can do this no matter what.Thank you for sharing these letters.If possible I would like to request another book for our development officer who is deeply religious. I know she and her husband will read the book and pass it along to the Jewish Community of Amherst. As I am practicing Buddhism I respect greatly the devotion with which Nancy practiced and deeply felt her own spirituality. I also teach step aerobics on the side and will try to think of Nancy's example on those days when getting to the gym seems like more of an inconvenience than a joy.Nadine Shank"... Collapse