Terra & Jeff Miller
133 Spruce Ave
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Our home phone: 650-324-3039
Terra’s email: terramilner@gmail.com (yes, the spelling is goofy)
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This website was put together so beautifully (and incredibly quickly) by our dear family friend, Emilly. It was clear when we came home from UCSF on Friday, July 29 that it would be very helpful to have a way to update people and receive messages. Emilly has recently created several impressive websites, so we asked her.
I can’t say enough how much I’m thinking of all of you and wishing you well. Jane
sending love and lite to to you, Norina, a most precious golden wide eyed gorgeous dancing spirit and to your family who are gathered around you . we wish you peace and gentleness in this journey . the love is never ending ……………Judy and Tom
Dear Norina and everyone,
Russell, Mischa, Angus and I have been thinking about you all the time. We admire your family so much; you are a source of inspiration for us, the way you are so close and are all such amazing, creative and strong individuals! We have been grateful to have you in our lives…as a Peninsula teacher/family, as babysitters and friends. Before we went to sleep last night, the boys and I concentrated on sending Norina all our love. Norina, you are a beautiful spirit. You have taken these ups and downs with grace and strength. You have taught us how to live a life fully and happily even in the midst of a terrible disease. We are blessed to know you. We send our love and gratitude to you and the whole family.
Love, Sarah, Russell, Mischa and Angus
Dear Norina and Family,
We’re keeping you in our hearts and thoughts as you move into this next phase. Please know that we consciously surround you all with love and support during this time of transition. Jai Meher Baba! Jai Meher Baba!
Love, Judy and Carl
Thoughts and prayers out to you, dear Norina. I have a baby picture of you and your father, how you looked like him. Love to you and your mom, dad, brothers, and family. I’m going to read about Meher Baba, your spiritual master.
From a long ago friend, Kay Mathew
Dear Norina,
My thoughts are with you, and with your mom and dad and brothers. I have so many lovely memories of times we shared at school and later in Europe. I especially respect your fortitude as you have weathered your illness. I stand in awe of your grace. I would like to see if you if that is possible.
Love, Lynne
Sending my warmest thoughts to you, dear Norina, from a beautiful, green meadow in Vermont. How inspirational your travels are to so many of us. My love to you and your family and wishes for continuing peace and contentment.
Love, Florrie
Norina,
You carry such joy and grace with you, from the little ball of energy that you were as my friend Nina in Florrie’s class, to the solidly rooted woman you have become. I’m filling my thoughts with love and light for you and your family. I’m sure you are surrounded by support and creativity in your home and hope that it’s giving you peace and strength.
Much love,
Vanessa
Dearest Norina,
I am booking my flight today and look so forward to seeing you tomorrow evening (Wednesday). Shireen, Mehera, Franey and I are thinking of you all the time; sending our most sincere love and Jai Baba. When I think of Beloved Baba, I think of you; and when I think of you, I think of Beloved Baba.
In His love,
Uncle Jay
Jai Baba Dearest Norina,
I can’t tell you how much it meant to me – and will always mean to me – to have had such a sweet and precious visit with you over the weekend. I wish I could have stayed for longer, but I’m so grateful for the time we had together.
Norina, you are an amazing person, with a beautiful soul, and I felt these qualities a thousandfold when I was just with you. Thank you for your sweetness and light.
With all my love to my darling goddaughter,
Aunty Shireenxx
Jai Baba My Dearest Norina,
These few lines are to say words are never adequate to express my feelings for you. You have been in my thoughts and prayers, and I love you. I’ve known you since your first visit to London when you were a little girl, and you have grown into a beautiful, gracious young lady with many talents. Your love for Meher Baba is an ever shining light and He is with you, and His sweet Nazar is upon you always. Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai. Much much love in His Embrace,
Franey
Dear Norina and Terra,
Brian and I are thinking of you and sending our love. Meeting you in India was one of the highlights of our month-long trip. You both were so welcoming and loving to us that we instantly felt like your family. Norina, you educated me about some foods and I always think of you when I am eating flax seeds!
We now have a 2 year old son, Rowan, who fills our life with humor, joy and love. The peak of summer has passed for us in Alaska and now it is the beginning of harvest season. The berries are ripening, the salmon are running, the garden is over flowing with veggies, and the nights are getting dark and cold with the approach of autumn.
Thank you for sharing the wonderful photos and for setting up this website for us ‘out here’. We love you. Jessica, Brian and Rowan
hi terra, got top read about Norina and mind went out to those days at Mehrabad where i met you, Norina and Elizabeth. Norina’s faith and trust for Baba is amazing and when higher souls stand by a human being there is no fear. Norina we ( my whole family and extended family of my husband) wish you loads of love, care, blessings and good health. we all are praying and prayers are always answered. will send you distant Reiki. Distance does not matters when hearts pray.
love you,
jai baba
Love from Lana & I. We were only blessed with meeting you once but you radiate love and kindness. We are blessed to be a part of your family.
thank you for dancing your beautiful graceful loving spirit through our lives.
Norina!
I will be up visiting next week and I would love to swing by. I have so many thing I want to ask and say that scribbling it all here seems a daunting task. Norina we are all lucky to have you in our lives to whatever degree we get you. You have stumbled back into my life that day in the park as I must have stumbled into yours. I feel so luck that I did- that I got sucked back into your life for these monumental 5 years or so. I can’t wait to see you again.
Hi sweet Norina, Jai Baba, I did not know you were in treatment again, you looked so great last i saw, you, all our love and get dancing again as quickly as possible, Raine, Freiny-etta and Bill
Dear Norina,
I love you, and love the pictures of you, love in our Baba-hearts, Freiny
(Freiny-etta)
Hi Norina, i just read the web site and we send extra extra special love to you and your family at this time, you are such a darling, much love now and forever, Raine
(Raine Auntie)
Dearest Norina, you and your wonderful family are in my thoughts every day. I had a great old memory of you yesterday, probably when you were about 4 years old, playing with my dad, with your wild smile and beautiful eyes. I am sending all my love to you. You are in my heart and thoughts, Chloe
Dearest Norina and to all of your loving family,
I am touched by reading some of these messages, can you believe it was 1997 when you and your mom were in India with Mike and Tom and I? Of coarse, we have seen each other since, but I have special memories and pics of those long days and many blue bus trips!
You are in my heart and we all love you and are thinking of you! Jai Baba, dearest, will keep ourselves posted. Consider this a big, fat squeeze from Mike, Tom and I!! Jai Baba
Norina,
My husband and I wish you and the family the very, very best. You are in our thoughts and our hearts.
Julia & Jesper
Dear Norina,
It has been years since I last saw you but my memories of your beauty and grace and your easy laugh and smile are still vivid. Reading about your travels and spirituality is inspiring to me and a helpful reminder to consciously look for a meaningful, selfless focus in life.
I hope you are enjoying beautiful sunny days in the garden and some spicy food. When I think of you, the first two things that come to mind are your elegant dancer’s posture and your incredibly high tolerance for habanero salsa.
Lots of love,
Sarah Congress
To Dear Sweet Norina,
We love you so much! When I think of the time I first met you, I thought, what a beautiful and pure soul! what a sweet and lovely light was emanating from you!
and always what a joy to be with you!
We send you all our love, we know you are cradled in His loving hands.
Love from Susan White and Charles and Anna Nordeen xoxoxox
Exploding cocktails — what a wonderful and refreshing way to cool off on a summers day! (and I am suddenly starting to understand the need for an outdoor kitchen!)
Sending LOVE (and a big thirst)
Polly
Hi Norina,
These photos remind me of how amazingly beautiful you have always been. They’re great to see – thank you! Some of these make me think back to when you would babysit for the kids. You were great – gentle, calm, kind, wise . . . And I remember you dancing.
I think of you often.
Love,
Hi dear Norina and family:
I’m sending you all lots of love and hugs. Norina, I love thinking of you, your great smile and sparkling eyes, dancing form and zest for adventure, and I have pictures in my mind from when you were a little girl all the way to amazing woman. I’m so glad to learn of your spiritual journey and know how much that is supporting you in this new unfolding journey. I’m holding you all in my thoughts and wish for continued peace (perhaps interrupted by exploding cocktails!) and things to smile about as your friends and family hold you close.
Lots of love to you,
Elizabeth
Jai Baba dear Norina and dear Terra,
I still see us meeting and talking at Dolli & Jal´s. Norina is such a sweet girl and her appearance is really gorgeous. It is wonderful to know you all in Meher Baba´s care.
Much love from Germany to all of you
Regina and kids
Last night in the “Wilds of Burnaby” it was pickle night. I hung a big towel over the kitchen doorway to try to keep the ‘acid rain’ out of the rest of the house. There was a gap between the bottom of the towel and the floor about a foot and a half tall, the cats would streak in and out, dodging past the stove with it’s caldrons as quickly as possible to get to their food. It was much cooler down by the floor, I noticed that when I bent over to pick up runaway garlic and such. It was a pretty long night, but the result was 39 litre jars of dills, with 6 of them being 1-1/5 litre jars.
It is true that at times I wonder Why do I do this, the pickles and the jams?
And the simple answer is that a number years ago, at one of the Grandmother Nat reunions, I overheard Norina saying to one of her cousins from Hawaii “You have to try this jam — my aunt makes the best jam in the world.”
While I don’t make that boast myself, and there is a lot of good jam and pickles out there, hearing Norina say that is stored away in my mind, and when I ask myself why I do it, that’s the reason!
There are those moments in time that you remember vividly in your mind. I came to Peninsula as a new mom of a kindergartner and Terra too was a new mom of a kinde and we delighted together in this new found place of paradise to have a childhood. As in the usual Miller fashion, Jesse and I were invited to visit Nina and Terra at their home. We watched and chatted as Jesse and Nina played on the swing set that sat in the backyard which now hosts a beautiful zen garden. It was like yesterday…
Thinking of you as you peacefully look outside at the garden..xxoo Lucille and Jesse
we are a Peninsula family who is thinking of you. Noemie, Caroline, Jocelyn
Dear Norina,
I wish that I could see you more than anything else. I am so glad that Ingrid and Gaye were able to see you at this time but I wish that I had been there too. I send you all the love that I have to give and, although it’s not much, I want you to know that I am thinking of you all the time. You’re in my mind when I am awake and when I am asleep as well. I miss you and our family so much. I miss painting the ocean with you and Terra and I miss the times you babysat me when I was young. You are a beautiful person inside and out. I wish you peace and harmony.
Love,
Danske
Norina,
Though I’ve only known you for a brief time I’d like to pass on my appreciation for sharing yourself with the children in my classroom. I and they will go on to remember you as a warm, generous, open, loving, soul. You showed bravery and integrity in appropriatley sharing your struggle honestly with the kids and I’ll never forget that.
Sending love from the Mills and Bridges communities,
Rosa
Hi Norina
I am back home now, but holding you in my heart, and so glad to have been able to see you this past week. I think of you leaping in dance, almost flying, and of how you have lived your life in such a considered way over the past 5 years; it has felt to me that you have done so much ‘becoming’ your true self — what a gift you, and what a gift this time has been. Sending you Big Love.
Polly
We are with you.
Sending constant love.
At times a wave of reality comes over me as I sit in quiet and stillness on retreat. I feel moved to tell you at this time how much I am thinking of all of you and sending my good thoughts and warm loving light your way. I will be back in the bay area at the end of this week. Lucille
Having this website is a great idea as it unites us all who love Norina and her
beautiful family. I will always miss her as I treasure knowing her. She is so like her parents and so like her unique self. You are blessed to be her parents and it is a
hard thing to have to give her up. Yet, it is just her body that perishes, not her spirit which is dancing and flying through life. In all my life i have never met a more vital,
caring beautiful person. Norina is herself as we all strive to be ourselves. She is
unselfish and creative, talented and endlessly creative and original. What a girl she is
and what a magnificent woman she grew into. There are no words to describe her
freshness and naturalness. She is truly Meher Baba’s because only Meher Baba could create such a being. She is forever with us and forever with God. She always was an angel and will always offer our lives the touch of her love….
I only knew Norina and her family for a short time, but it left an indelible mark on my heart. Her spirit will continue to shine through all that met her.
You all remain in my heart, Julie
Norina, lovely Norina. In my mind Norina was always dancing. She had an endless sense of flow. I knew Norina through her studies in Dance at San Francisco State where she’d leave her paint box and other art materials at the edge of the studio as she’d prepare herself for her boundless movement. In choreography class, she was like the wind, always moving upward,coming down to prepare for her next flight. My heart is with you in the redwoods even though 10/23 I cannot be. Norina shines onward.
Dear Terra, Jeff, and family,
We send our deepest condolences to you at this time. We fondly remember Norina’s graceful stature as she danced at the Meher Center and at our home. We also remember the times we shared at Meherabad when Norina, Terra, and Elizabeth were there. Sending each of you all of our love in Beloved Meher Baba’s Love,
Alan, Karen, and family
norina–
today i turn 30 and i can’t stop thinking about you. i am so sad that you don’t have the opportunity to see the milestones that i have the privilege to experience… the joys and pains of growing up. in some ways, i will “surpass” you in years. and yet when you looked at me before you left us, i could see such wisdom and knowing in your eyes. it was as if you had lived a thousand lives, and you have far surpassed me in your spiritual growth. i will catch up to you one day, my beloved friend.
dylan read me this poem by Wendell Berry and it makes me think of you.
In a dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: “How you been?”
He grins and looks at me.
“I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees.”