tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684094023681819935.post2900210066786975011..comments2023-10-10T12:38:41.200+01:00Comments on Musings from a muddy island: Bereavement in the BlogosphereJuliethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18055924620237477722noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684094023681819935.post-84331618777883635872009-02-13T15:26:00.000+00:002009-02-13T15:26:00.000+00:00How wonderfully written, Juliet. I think you have...How wonderfully written, Juliet. I think you have expressed this 'situation,' for lack of a better word, very well. I didn't read any of the blogs you mentioned, but there is a blogger in Canada who spent a year studying in England, came home, and is now very, very ill, whose blog I've been reading a while now.Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15547916206007733970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684094023681819935.post-7541037073736922542009-02-12T21:36:00.000+00:002009-02-12T21:36:00.000+00:00Lisa was my colleague and, I'd like to think, my f...Lisa was my colleague and, I'd like to think, my friend. Her funeral was today, and many of her colleagues were present: not me, unfortunately. She had a good send off. Prof Robert Sheppard, avant-garde poet and one of her PhD supervisors, gave a eulogy, and her daughters and husband read poems they had written about her.<BR/>The end for Lisa was swift and cruel. In those last weeks, she frequently returned to the theme of the urgent need to get things done- carpe diem, in essence. Wise words.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647405720597546140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684094023681819935.post-13201045988841080002009-02-12T19:42:00.000+00:002009-02-12T19:42:00.000+00:00J, I am sorry for the sadness that touches you thr...J, I am sorry for the sadness that touches you through the loss of these on-line friends. I know how real that loss is, even when you haven't actually met the people concerned. The grief may be different but just as real as when one loses a close friend.monixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16631194815411019266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684094023681819935.post-22210139209800871572009-02-12T19:29:00.000+00:002009-02-12T19:29:00.000+00:00A very thought provoking post, Juliet. How much I ...A very thought provoking post, Juliet. How much I agree with your final two sentences in particular.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.com