“She
is such a windmill / If she would only stand still” (song lyrics
by Loryn B. Deane, Mario Albanese and Ciro Pereira).
Well
that was our beautiful Sylvia Heininger Holden, stilled only by her
death on June 5. We miss her so. Come to her memorial service on
Saturday, September 21, 10:30 a.m., at the Unitarian Meeting House at
the top of Church Street in Burlington, Vt. All are welcome. Sylvia’s
obituary in Seven Days is online here: bit.ly/3W80BSn. Then,
“she’ll spread her wings / And be gone again / Leaving you an
ache in your heart / And an awful yearn…”
This article appears in Sep 11-17, 2024.