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Kitten
Shipmate
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Maius intra qua extra
Never accept a ride from a stranger, unless they are in a big blue box
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Suze
Ship's Barmaid
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How very sad. My prayers for those who loved and cared for her.
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' You stay here and I'll go look for God, that won't be hard cos I know where he's not, and I will bring him back with me , then he'll listen , then he'll see' Richard Shindell
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TonyK
Host Emeritus
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What terribly sad news.....
for jlg
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for her family and friends
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Yours aye ... TonyK
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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How shocking and sad.
I'm so very sorry.
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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very sorry to read this
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Margaret
Shipmate
# 283
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How inexplicably awful and sad - may she have found peace and healing now
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MrSponge2U
Ship’s scrub
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This is very sad to hear. May God have mercy.
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sig? what sig?
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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I can't seem to come up with any words that would be appropriate outside of hell.
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Robert Armin
All licens'd fool
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I never met jlg, and didn't often interact with her on the Ship; nevertheless I valued her. This is very hard to take in.
Rest eternal grant unto her, O Lord.
And for all those affected by the aftermath of her actions.
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Keeping fit was an obsession with Fr Moity .... He did chin ups in the vestry, calisthenics in the pulpit, and had developed a series of Tai-Chi exercises to correspond with ritual movements of the Mass. The Antipope Robert Rankin
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Beautiful Dreamer
Shipmate
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I did not know her well, but I wish for peace for both her and her family. I believe we will see her again one day...
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More where that came from
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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May her memory be eternal. Godspeed, Jen.
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I upped mine. Up yours.
Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
WTFWED?
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FCB
Hillbilly Thomist
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She was one of only two shipmates I had ever met IRL. She was passing through town and came to my parish on a Sunday morning to hear me preach.
She had long struck me as one of those about whom Augustine spoke so eloquently when he said our souls are restless until they rest in God. Perhaps that was why she found this place of unrest so congenial.
Requiescat in pace.
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Qoheleth.
Semi-Sagacious One
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Enigma
Enigma
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So very very sorry - may Jennifer's family and friends somehow find strength to cope with what seems to be a near impossible situation.
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Who knows? Only God!
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snowgoose
Silly goose
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I just can't believe it. I had dinner with her (and JB and Motherboard) some time ago when I was in New Mexico, and she was very charming and witty and kind. They all drove me home (it was dark and my night vision is very bad), with Jen driving me in my little pickup truck, and we chatted on the way. She was an amazing person who had done some amazing things.
Then, last year when I was all worried about the stray cat who adopted us, she was very helpful, gave great advice, got her daughter (a veteran stray-cat saver) to email me with advice, and followed up to make sure everything was going well.
I don't know what horrible demons drove her to this, but there was on balance much more kindness and compassion than hatred in her, I am quite sure.
Lord have mercy. I pray for peace and healing for all the survivors. And may Jen rest in peace.
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Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man? --Terry Pratchett
Save a Siamese!
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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Rembering the person we knew her to be, thanking God that the overwhelming darkness is now lifted, and offering prayers for all those affected.
![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Heraclitus
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Esmeralda
Ship's token UK Mennonite
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What everyone said. Praying particularly for her friends and family as I know from first hand experience what suicide can do to a family.
I wish she had come to Waving not Drowning for support. We can't stop anyone committing suicide, or even change their feelings, but we can be a safe place to express them and for others to say they know how it is.
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I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
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Organ Builder
Shipmate
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I'm simply stunned.
She was one of the few whose name at the end of a thread would make me check it out even if the title did not seem to be the least bit interesting.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
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Meg the Red
Shipmate
# 11838
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Dear God.
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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This is good to read - from her local paper, presumably.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Heraclitus
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snowgoose
Silly goose
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quote:
Originally posted by Drifting Star:
This is good to read - from her local paper, presumably.
Thanks, DS.
![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man? --Terry Pratchett
Save a Siamese!
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Nicolemr
Shipmate
# 28
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So sorry to hear.
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On pilgrimage in the endless realms of Cyberia, currently traveling by ship. Now with live journal!
Posts: 11803 | From: New York City "The City Carries On" | Registered: May 2001
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Bronwyn
Shipmate
# 52
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Lord have mercy and thoughts and prayers for her family.
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Fragile X syndrome is part of our lives. Someone I love makes me proud who has this syndrome. I love you Miriam.
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Emma Louise
Storm in a teapot
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Can't quite believe it. Thinking of her and of the family left behind.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
# 473
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Thinking of Jennifer's family. May she, and they, find rest.
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Taliesin
Shipmate
# 14017
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I can't believe it... The year began with Erin and has ended with Jen - so terribly sad and I can only pray for her and her family.
At peace with God now.
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tomb
Shipmate
# 174
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I'm sick at heart. She was such a delightful person with a snarky sense of humor that was even nastier than mine.
And she was a liturgist as well. I remember quarreling with her at the Colorado Shipmeet about how truly awful RC liturgy was; I found myself defending it.
I remember her humor. I remember the way her eyes would twinkle just before she said something outrageously inappropriate that made everybody laugh until they were sick.
She bought me a bottle of GIN.
She was a good person, and I am devastated that the darkness overwhelmed her. + May the Light of Christ pierce that darkness and + guide her into the Presence of the Almighty, and may she + find the courage to let her Lord love her.
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QLib
Bad Example
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quote:
Originally posted by Organ Builder:
I'm simply stunned.
She was one of the few whose name at the end of a thread would make me check it out even if the title did not seem to be the least bit interesting.
Yes, me too. This is so sad.
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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This is so shocking and sad. Jennifer was such a neat and special person, and I feel privileged to call her my friend.
We met at the 2003 Colorado International meet, and found out almost immediately that we had a lot of things in common. She had invited me to Even Tinier Town, where a lot of music would have been played.
Our lives have been richer because of Jennifer.
Rest in peace, dear lady. Indeed you are a sheep (3) of His flock.
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Gill H
Shipmate
# 68
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She was one of those whose avatar would make me stop and read a post.
Prayers for her family and friends.
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*sigh* We can’t all be Alan Cresswell.
- Lyda Rose
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rosamundi
Ship's lacemaker
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Jennifer was one of the Shipmates I met on my sojourn in New York. She was so kind and welcoming.
So shocked to read this, may she find the peace that passes all understanding.
Acknowledge, we, humbly beseech thee, O Lord, a sheep of thine own fold, a lamb of thine own flock, a sinner of thine own redeeming. Receive her into the arms of thy mercy, into the blessed rest of everlasting peace, and into the glorious company of the saints in light.
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Curious
Shipmate
# 93
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Oh good grief.I saw 'jlg' and thought this will be good. It isn't. It's so tragic. Thoughts and prayers with her family for whom the last few days must have been so hard.
We don't know what happens to affect the decisions a person makes. May God's spirit of peace rest with those whose minds are in turmoil.
Curious
[ 27. December 2011, 21:56: Message edited by: Curious ]
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Erin - you are missed more than you could know. Rest in peace and rise in glory - to provide unrest in the heavenly realms.
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dolphy
Lady of Perpetual Responsiblity
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I am lost for words.
I read about this elsewhere.
It seems so unreal...
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Genevičve
Mother-Hatting Cat Lover
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I'm in shock. Like others who have already posted, I too would stop and read anything jlg wrote. I met her once IRL when she came to a cookout Shipmeet we had in our area. She seemed like a smart, down-to-earth, interesting person.
I am so sorry for her family and friends, and for what she must have been suffering.
Rest in peace now, Jen.
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"Ineffable" defined: "I cannot and will not be effed with." (Courtesy of CCTooSweet in Running the Books)
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St Everild
Shipmate
# 3626
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I am so sorry to hear this.
May she rest in peace, and rise in glory.
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Auntie Doris
Screen Goddess
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So sad
Auntie Doris x
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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We met Jen eight years ago in Colorado and she was our housemate. So witty, intelligent and kind was she. We last saw her in Colorado at another shipmeet. We remember her at the end of the cattle drive where she got terribly sunburned but was still undaunted.
RIP, old friend.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Zappa
Ship's Wake
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I always enjoyed jen, and had hoped to meet her irl when in her neck of the woods 18 months ago. Sadly it didn't happen. May she now be embraced in the Christlight that was so often unclear to her ...
As Jack the Lass said on the missing shippies thread, her slighty freaky avatar was sheer delight. I'll miss her.
for all who will always mourn her passing
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and mayhap this too: http://broken-moments.blogspot.co.nz/
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sabine
Shipmate
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She has been released.
sabine
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"Hunger looks like the man that hunger is killing." Eduardo Galeano
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Janine
The Endless Simmer
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Flabbergasted. Bewildered. Astonished.
I told myself I wouldn't even open the thread. I saw "jlg" there on All Saints' first page, and I told myself I reject it, I refuse it, it can't be good. And I looked, and it wasn't.
She's in the hands of the perfect, loving God now, which is the place to be. No one knows her so well as the Lord, not even Jen herself. And no one loves her so well as the Lord.
What I hope for now is that the people close to her, who were hurt, can heal without a single negative emotion trapped in the scars. That's what I pray for.
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