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maleveque
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Laura beat me to it - I just dropped her off at home & then ebeth to the Metro.
It was a truly magnificent funeral. The full MW-style report will follow very soon - a collaborative effort among the three of us.
A bagpiper piped her out of the cathedral in a most fitting manner for a dear Shipmate.
![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
- Anne L.
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Kelly Alves
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Glad you were there, Laura and malaveque. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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ebeth
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It was beautiful, profound, sad and hopeful. It was an honor to be there and to have called her friend.
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ebeth
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Originally posted by Enigma:
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
I didn't know Genevieve, only that I was recently her Secret Santa, the thinnest of connections, and yet enough that this is a strong reminder how suddenly life can end. What's important is life. Her life. Your life. My life. What am I doing with the gift of time? Am I valuing it, valuing life?
If that is one of her legacies - to question what life is all about and what we must do with it while we are here - then I'm sure she is pleased. (I didn't know her either but you don't need to know a person to learn from them in all sorts of ways).
Amen. Exactly.
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Laura
General nuisance
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Thanks, Maleveque, for the ride home!
You're so right about the music -- this was another classic example of music being used to turn us all into pure liquid. When the piper and organ started into "Resignation" ("My shepherd will supply my need") as her sister bore her ashes out past her fellow priests I was completely done for.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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Blessings on all of you.
![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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In Memory of Miss Molly, TimC, Gambit, KenWritez, koheleth, Leetle Masha, JLG, Genevieve, Erin, RuthW2, deuce2, Sidi and TonyCoxon, unbeliever, Morlader, Ken :tear: 20 years but who’s counting?..................
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Thank you ebeth, Laura and maleveque.
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neandergirl
Opposing the thumb
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Hopeful, love-filled, shattering, beautiful all describe the service well. Watching her compadres bless her on her way was beyond moving. And the music!
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Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. Hebrews 13:5 NIV
We come from love, we return to love, and all around is love.
Lord, ease our burdens, give us peace and enable us to do your work. Tree Bee
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QLib
Bad Example
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Thank you for posting that link, Laura - it's inspiring.
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CuppaT
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Tragedies are so very hard. Lord have mercy. Memory Eternal. We live and we pray. Lord have mercy.
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Stand at the brink of the abyss of despair, and when you see that you cannot bear it any longer, draw back a little and have a cup of tea.
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Nenuphar
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May the Lord have mercy on all those touched by this tragedy, and may the souls of the departed rest in peace and rise in glory.
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Jemima the 9th
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Lovely tributes in that article.
for all who love and miss her.
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Malin
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Shockingly sudden end. Lord have mercy.
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Loveheart
Blue-scarved menace
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Only just seen this! Speechless ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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IngoB
Sentire cum Ecclesia
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I've just seen this... I'm stunned. Will pray.
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They’ll have me whipp’d for speaking true; thou’lt have me whipp’d for lying; and sometimes I am whipp’d for holding my peace. - The Fool in King Lear
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Laura
General nuisance
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Originally posted by Gwai:
I wonder if she thought of the ship when she said, as quoted in the article, that she would get her big girl panties on. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I just noticed that the article said, "there was hardly an empty seat." There were NO empty seats, and a good number of people were standing everywhere you could safely stand. If Maleveque and ebeth hadn't saved me one, I'd have had to sit on Anne's lap.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
# 107
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Is there a Mystery Worship report?
Moo
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See you later, alligator.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I only learnt about this at a Shipmeet, so sad and so senseless.
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maleveque
Shipmate
# 132
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Originally posted by Moo:
Is there a Mystery Worship report?
Moo
There will be soon. I've had a helluva two weeks, but I should be able to write up my notes this weekend. Sorry I've been remiss.
- Anne L.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
# 107
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Originally posted by maleveque:
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Originally posted by Moo:
Is there a Mystery Worship report?
Moo
There will be soon. I've had a helluva two weeks, but I should be able to write up my notes this weekend. Sorry I've been remiss.
- Anne L.
That's okay. I just wanted to make sure there would be one.
Moo
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See you later, alligator.
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