-Anne Cook
David was a very generous person. He was my doctor for about 15 years and spent a lot of time with me when I needed it. He often dithered when I asked what I owed him, and didn’t ask for much. I know he gave a lot of remedies away to patients who otherwise couldn’t afford them. When I asked about this, he said “Oh, all of us Anthro docs do it. Do you think the homeless people I help can afford it?” When David visited his sister in Sonoma County, he also stopped to pick mistletoe from different trees for the pharmacies. Luther Burbank had planted the right kind and it grows everywhere. David attended work days with therapeutic eurythmists, and hosted doctor study days for years at his house. During the pandemic, he brought light into many isolated peoples’ lives with his zoom presentations and gatherings. During phone calls, he delighted in bringing in irrelevant (to me) tidbits he thought were interesting, which prolonged the conversation and were always illuminating. David allowed me to discuss patients with him that weren’t his (anonymously of course) as he was very experienced in therapeutic eurythmy. In fact, the week before he died, I had emailed him about a new patient, and wondered why I never heard back from him. Though David was not a member of the Christian Community, it was through the SF priest I learned of his death. His generosity of soul made him a part of the greater Bay Area communities.