In Memory of Carol Ding

[kc_heath]

One of the people who critiqued REINS OF TIME passed away suddenly in January. Carol Ding was only 61, and dropped of a brain aneurysm. She was a great fan of science fiction, and voted in the Hugos every year. She was a very creative person herself, both in writing, gardening, sewing, and photography. She had a wonderful sense of humor and will be sorely missed.

I planted a dahlia by my door to remember her by. Her husband, Jim, said an ee cummings poem at her service. I am posting it here in her honor:

I Carry Your Heart With Me

i carry your heart with me. (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life, which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)