Sublime

“She had the power of getting the best out of each thing and person.”

Her temperament was distinctly familial to me. She could be me, if I could unzip my skin and release all my fury. If Erin brought out the intellect in me (and my petty envy), Helen brought out what was raw in me.

“She had a great gift of finding out people’s interests and drawing them out.”

noblesse oblige,

also someone engaged in a deep, ambitious pursuit of knowledge and beauty.

Susan Cornelia Clarke Warren,

a constellation of her interests and passions and ambitions and love of beauty.