Fannie Schaenen

I am not wholly or even partially sure what it means to sign this guest book, if anyone reads it, if anyone knows it exists.

I am certain of this though. Few people in the world gave more or felt more than this woman. An aristocrat of menschlikeit growing up in a southern culture, Fannie was and is and will be what many of us only dream of being.

She suffered little bull, she always spoke with dignity, and her way of touching and encountering the world assured those in...