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I realize it's been a long hiatus and people have been asking me to update. Something happened, shortly after the last entry, that I did not know how to write about, but felt odd writing about anything else. Hence, nothing.
What happened, briefly, is that one of my online friends (who I have met in person, but know primarily from various internet communities), passed away. She was not someone I was very close to, but she was close to people I am close to, and her death is a loss to communities I belong to. So I am not deeply sad on a personal level but have had a lot of concern and worry for friends of mine who lost someone quite important to them.
She was someone that I learned quite a lot from over the years; her online postings about her war with mental illness taught compassion and understanding to many people. There is much I would not know and would be too quick to judge, if it were not for her. Someday maybe I will be able to better express this, but I'm quite there yet.
So there it is, for those of my friends reading this who aren't part of those same online families and didn't know about this. I don't need any sorrys or condolescences, her loss was far more serious to many other people than it was to me. Maybe it's some kind of journalistic thing... if this journal is the "paper of record" of my life, then it would be wrong to have entries about snowboarding or my horse or home renovations without acknowleging that this other, more serious event occurred.
Having made that acknowlegment, here are a few of the things that have happened lately I would otherwise have written about:
- had the last snowboarding trip of the year
- rode Arwen in her first jumping lesson since last fall and it went well; we seem to be on the way to overcoming her issues
- Andrew and I have been married for one year, as of Sunday... it has gone by very very fast and has been a great year
- Along with Sarah and Amber, we went to the Opera (Barber of Seville) as part of Year of Doing Things, and it was excellent (attractive men singing beautifully in Italian = good)
- I will find out later month if I will be hired back after I finish articling.
What happened, briefly, is that one of my online friends (who I have met in person, but know primarily from various internet communities), passed away. She was not someone I was very close to, but she was close to people I am close to, and her death is a loss to communities I belong to. So I am not deeply sad on a personal level but have had a lot of concern and worry for friends of mine who lost someone quite important to them.
She was someone that I learned quite a lot from over the years; her online postings about her war with mental illness taught compassion and understanding to many people. There is much I would not know and would be too quick to judge, if it were not for her. Someday maybe I will be able to better express this, but I'm quite there yet.
So there it is, for those of my friends reading this who aren't part of those same online families and didn't know about this. I don't need any sorrys or condolescences, her loss was far more serious to many other people than it was to me. Maybe it's some kind of journalistic thing... if this journal is the "paper of record" of my life, then it would be wrong to have entries about snowboarding or my horse or home renovations without acknowleging that this other, more serious event occurred.
Having made that acknowlegment, here are a few of the things that have happened lately I would otherwise have written about:
- had the last snowboarding trip of the year
- rode Arwen in her first jumping lesson since last fall and it went well; we seem to be on the way to overcoming her issues
- Andrew and I have been married for one year, as of Sunday... it has gone by very very fast and has been a great year
- Along with Sarah and Amber, we went to the Opera (Barber of Seville) as part of Year of Doing Things, and it was excellent (attractive men singing beautifully in Italian = good)
- I will find out later month if I will be hired back after I finish articling.