Her creative talents, her devotion to her clients and her integrity were unparalleled.
Unable to accept the fact that our lives are finite, we seek symbolic immortality – often through child-rearing or creative work or devotion to great causes, but sometimes to demagogues instead.
Yet for entrepreneurs who have truly creative ideas, unrelenting devotion and oodles of ability to execute but who may not have fat trust funds to lean on there's reason for hope.
There are in these deaths glimpses of bravery, of beauty, of crushingly pointless suffering, of rampant self-destruction, of truly terrible behaviour, of creative bursts, of superb devotion, of glitteringly accurate self-knowledge, and of magnificent delusion.
But Cope, who had been at the center of the Liverpool post-punk scene as the leader of the acid-soaked Teardrop Explodes, went on after "Saint Julian" to record a series of ambitious records that displayed a mastery of songcraft and an unrelenting devotion to creative, political, and pharmaceutical expansion.
We will all remember her elegant, vivacious personality, her tremendous creative talents, and her deeply compassionate devotion to her family.
But the cult of Durga, the consort of Shiva, began to gain importance only in the 4th century, and the large-scale development of Shaktism (devotion to the active, creative principle personified as the mother goddess) did not take place until medieval times.
The tenderness of this little scene is breathtaking, because it finishes the "Toy Story" cycle in an unexpected and entirely convincing way, by showing that Andy, a kind and creative young man, was worthy of the devotion of his toys, and that his decency was indeed the product of that devotion.
Plenty of people get up early to exercise, to do devotions or to do creative work.
