Meet Nina “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

Our daughter Nina lived for only twenty years.  She filled her life with compassion for everyone, except herself, and thoughtful support to troubled people, except herself.  When she was unable to attend college physically, she pursued a university honors degree in sociology online, aiming towards a career in sociology.

Having been bullied as a child, Nina became a natural protector of others.  Her passions were animal welfare and social justice, especially standing up for the rights of women.  She could rouse a fine rage against cruelty, heartlessness or indifference.

Before the darkness of her disease overwhelmed her, Nina’s great joy was travel.  She wanted to go everywhere and see everything.  She traveled from a South American rainforest to an icebreaker in the Arctic, from Stratford-on-Avon to a nature preserve in western China.  In  her last months, she managed to reach Antarctica, sending home photos of herself, cocooned in her sleeping bag on the deck of her ship, and taking a dunk through a hole in the ice.  She kept a world map on her bedroom wall, stuck with pins for the places she had visited;  her favorite pastime was figuring out where to go next.

To the end, Nina lived by the words of her much-admired Dorothy Parker:  “The cure for boredom is curiosity.  There is no cure for curiosity.”