o heart.
i am deeply, deeply saddened by the death of an old friend of mine.
http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/horrific-headon-crash-kills-woman-in-wheatbelt-20111101-1mswz.html
When i first started teaching and moved to Merredin, she was the first friend I made. She was the library assistant and i was the teacher librarian at the local high school. we spent a lot of time together chatting and drinking coffee and talking about boys and families and you know, *stuff*.
She had been working there for many years and her children went through the years at the local primary school and then on to the high school where we worked. although we lost touch when i moved back to the city we were connected through facebook.
I just can't believe it's happened and feel great shock and grief over this. she is an absolute inspiration to me and a total role model for the type of woman i want to grow into and DEFINITELY the type of mother i aspire to be if that should ever occur. her family and her amazing, kind & generous children are a credit and a true reflection of the warm-hearted, open person she was.
i can't believe it and i am thinking about it ALL the time so far. the SHOCK of it mostly. with illness you can prepare yourself. idk. it makes sense sometimes. this, this just makes no sense. it's way too early and so totally unfair not only to lose her, but for her family. god, i can't stop thinking of what they must be going through as well.
i've driven those long, straight country roads a thousand times and by the looks of it she perhaps fell asleep at the wheel. i have also woken up whilst driving my car on the wrong side of the road, as have many people. it's a timely reminder, i suppose.
i don't necessarily believe in God but sometimes it's easier to make sense of the world and the unfair and horrible things that happen by attributing it to some kind of Grand Design or Scheme or Plan or what the fuck ever it is. But when someone like that is taken so horribly and suddenly - where's the SENSE in that? how on EARTH can losing/taking a woman like that be part of anyone's grand plan? what are the rest supposed to LEARN from this?
i just don't know.
RIP, Karen. you will be so deeply missed.
http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/horrific-headon-crash-kills-woman-in-wheatbelt-20111101-1mswz.html
When i first started teaching and moved to Merredin, she was the first friend I made. She was the library assistant and i was the teacher librarian at the local high school. we spent a lot of time together chatting and drinking coffee and talking about boys and families and you know, *stuff*.
She had been working there for many years and her children went through the years at the local primary school and then on to the high school where we worked. although we lost touch when i moved back to the city we were connected through facebook.
I just can't believe it's happened and feel great shock and grief over this. she is an absolute inspiration to me and a total role model for the type of woman i want to grow into and DEFINITELY the type of mother i aspire to be if that should ever occur. her family and her amazing, kind & generous children are a credit and a true reflection of the warm-hearted, open person she was.
i can't believe it and i am thinking about it ALL the time so far. the SHOCK of it mostly. with illness you can prepare yourself. idk. it makes sense sometimes. this, this just makes no sense. it's way too early and so totally unfair not only to lose her, but for her family. god, i can't stop thinking of what they must be going through as well.
i've driven those long, straight country roads a thousand times and by the looks of it she perhaps fell asleep at the wheel. i have also woken up whilst driving my car on the wrong side of the road, as have many people. it's a timely reminder, i suppose.
i don't necessarily believe in God but sometimes it's easier to make sense of the world and the unfair and horrible things that happen by attributing it to some kind of Grand Design or Scheme or Plan or what the fuck ever it is. But when someone like that is taken so horribly and suddenly - where's the SENSE in that? how on EARTH can losing/taking a woman like that be part of anyone's grand plan? what are the rest supposed to LEARN from this?
i just don't know.
RIP, Karen. you will be so deeply missed.