Lynn
With sadness I learned that Lynn, my friend and occasional commenter here, passed away this morning. She succumbed to the cancer she had been fighting for the past several months. She did it with far more courage and grace than I could ever imagine.
It’s strange how the internet can bring people, who live great distances from each other, together. I’d never met Lynn in person, but we probably knew as much about each other as if we had sat over an endless stream of coffee cups. Her great love in life was photography and she shared her knowledge with such generosity. Her heart was large enough to hold us all and she never stopped dreaming of a better world. I will miss her and her irrepressible enthusiasm for life.
This is how I would choose to remember her...doing what she loved most in the world...capturing magic with her camera.
Nothing like the harsh realities of life to put everything else into perspective is there? I came in to the computer to avoid doing seriously bodily harm to the other people currently residing in my house (including my mother) who have managed for the past three hours to be everywhere I want to be and in the middle of everything I am trying to do. I had declared this a major cleaning day and thought I had made it perfectly clear that low profile would be the order of the day. Guess not.
But then I read this and decided it’s not so bad........I can clean around them--my life is good in spite of my mood today and so, I guess I should just shut up!!
She was special and because of your blog, I had followed her for a while and then, like a few others, had lost track. I am sorry.
Posted by cyn on 02/04/07 at 02:31 PM
Very sad. I’ve done the follow-the-link-to-good-art idea you’ve instigated here in the past, so I’m sure I probably caught some of her work.
I used to link to two bloggers who abruptly stopped with no forewarning, not even a hint at taking a haitus. I kept the links active for about a year, and truly felt a sense of loss - and I knew them through our occasional reciprical commenting only. That new form of “connecting” you allude to through the Internet and especially, blogs is real, and I don’t know if there’s a word for that yet - but the sense loss is real, and I’m sorry for you (and Lynn) today.
Thanks y’all. This just kinda flattened me.
Posted by Kate on 02/05/07 at 06:00 PM
How sad. My sympathy goes out to you and to Lynn’s family. Cancer is an evil.
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I didn’t even know she was sick. How sad.
She had a great enthusiasm for life. She loved her grandson Noah so. I lost track of her about a year or so ago.