I'm not even sure how Vivi and I got connected about maybe 10 yrs. ago. At the time, she was still working for an older woman who owned a very extensive collection of prints by a well known Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch. At the time, I was doing temp work and had some days doing the front desk for a social service agency that worked with kids in foster care and their birth parents. The agency had several large volunteer groups, (mostly women,) who met weekly in space the agency had, to make quilts. Each young client (the foster kids) received a handmade quilt for either a single bed, or a full-size bed if they were teens, and a lovely patchwork drawstring bag to carry their clothes in from one placement to the next instead of a black plastic garbage bag. I was explaining in emails to Vivi the joy this gesture provided for these youngsters in their otherwise destabilizing transitions. When she heard about the volunteer quilters, how they also held Spring and Fall auctions to raise money for child support re new socks, underwear and toiletries through their supply shop, Vivi got really excited! She offered to donate 3 quilts she had inherited (and never used) to such a worth project since she had no one to pass them on to in her family (no kids of her own.) So I offered to liaise with the agency/ volunteers, gave Vivi the shipping info, and she sent them out UPS for the next auction. Everyone was thrilled, Silver Spring to Tucson! Though I didn't attend the auction, I'm sure Vivi's quilts are well-loved by patrons who purchased them at the other end. An entertaining aside: Vivi was an excellent writer, very careful about use of words, clarity of her expressions and so on. Rarely made a grammatical or other mistake! I was so impressed. Could hardly match her punctiliousness. However, in one email, she commented about never having visited the (American) West, nor the "dessert"(sic)! I just couldn't help entertaining both of us with a comeback, something like, I was sure she had enjoyed plenty of excellent "dessert" in her time! Anyway, she was a wonderful correspondent, very generous with her care of Peter and sharing the discipline of Kyudo with the students in DC area. She, in fact, sent me a large art book of the print collection she had curated for her elderly employer, Edvard Munch, as I recall. The book had been produced as a catalog for a major exhibition of this private collection a few years earlier. I believe during Vivi's time with the collection, it was being given to one of the larger museums in the USA. She helped oversee packing and shipping, so she wrote, something like that anyway. Very fond memories of Vivi.