Celebrating the life of

Tanner Byholm

04 Oct 1995 - 16 Feb 2021

Family and friends

This Memorial timeline has been created to celebrate the life of my son, Tanner. It’s easy to think that to stay longer in this world is better. We perhaps wonder, how long are we going to live? But if we remove one word - “long”, it becomes a better focus: How are we going to live? Like going to a store, we get what we need and return home; we don't linger around. Perhaps the ultimate goal... more

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25 Dec 1995Glidden, WI, United States

Rebecca Acosta Tanner's first Christmas with big brother Justin. My favorite photo.

1 Jun 2014Camp Pendleton South, CA, United States

Rebecca Acosta When Great Trees Fall By Maya Angelou When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken. Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away. We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutterable ignorance of dark, cold caves. And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

1995

Lauren Ruth

2010

Lauren Ruth

2017

Lauren Ruth

1 Sep 2018Sarasota, FL, United States

Rebecca Acosta