memento Morrie: Images of Love and Loss

Facing my fears of life and death - that’s what I realize I was doing in the 1990’s with my camera and in my life. As a student at Brandeis University, I was fortunate to know Morrie Schwartz, who was wonderfully open about his philosophy on living and dying. Morrie’s lessons were chronicled in four Nightline shows and in the book, Tuesdays with Morrie. “Death ends a life, not a relationship,” Morrie said. He enjoyed the idea of people coming to visit his grave on a peaceful hill overlooking a pond - “You talk and I’ll listen.” Morrie showed me another way to face death and, in the process, live my life well. We had agreed to an exhibition pairing my photographs with his aphorisms and I was able to show our work at Brandeis just before he died on November 4, 1995. I left the USA in 1997 after having earned my degree and went on to live and teach overseas for 25 years. Now back in the US after so long – I return to Morrie’s story which continues to be inspirational.