Dear Friends of PAMA,

We all do and will continue to miss Amy's presence in this lifetime very much. As stated by so many of you from New Jersey to various countries around the world, Amy was a bright, multi skilled and talented woman, martial artist, and teacher. In life, martial arts, and art Amy walked that very fine and delicate balance of the feminine and masculine energies - the way of the Tao. This balance of our spirit or Yin and Yang energies made manifest in our physical bodies and lived out in our daily lives is very difficult for most to achieve.

Amy lived and embodied the true warrior spirit beautifully, taking on challenges from a point of love, adventure, and creativity instead of fear and anger. Even though she left this life too soon from our perspective, she left a very positive and big legacy from her teachings, art works, and the many people that she inspired and touched very deeply by just being who she was.

None of us wants to think about death, death of our loved ones, or ourselves but we all have to - it's going to happen. As true warriors, if we can overcome our fear of death, we can become more fully alive and live every moment to its fullest. I believe the final lesson that Amy would want to pass on would be... "GO FOR IT, live life fully, creatively, and consciously right up to the last moment," and then she would give that big smile of hers. If we could all live as fully, with grace, balance, power, and beauty and share these things with others as Amy did, the world would be a much better place.

I appreciate all of your caring and support, and I'm sure Amy feels all the love from above.

Rick Tucci

"It is in dying that we are born to eternal life".
- St Francis

"Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow."
- Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.