Missing You

Esther Scharlack Vexler was born on January 1, 1918, in San Antonio, Texas. Esther has an MS in Urban studies from Trinity University and has been deeply involved in social and progressive causes on local and national levels. She has taught Yoga since the mid-1960s and was called the mother of yoga by the San Antonio Express-News. She writes her memoirs as a mensch, a Jewish word that means a person of good character, dignity and responsibility. Her story then is about her families training and well as well as their cultural heritage as a Jew, was how they learned right from wrong, the virtues of honesty, integrity and above all the value of a good name. If I had known that I would be the last remaining one of the nine children in my nuclear family. She is thoughtful and honest about growing up in a family of nine. Here is an excerpt of her Introduction that gives you an idea of her character. "I might have listened more closely and kept more remembrances in my head. What survives in each person's mind forms a selective memory. The mind works in mysterious ways, sometimes blotting out stories possibly fit for the Academy Awards. These memories are lost to posterity when the characters die. Yet, we recall easily some piddling incidents perhaps better forgotten, yet so important to us."