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Thread: ken - R.I.P.
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Pine Marten
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I had no idea - love and prayers for ken and family, and God give you all strength and comfort ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Thanks for telling us Persephone, my prayers and thoughts are with him, you and Busyknitter.
May God hold you hands as you walk through this time
May you all hear the whispers of his breath as he draws close
And in God's coming close may you be surrounded with love.
Jengie
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"To violate a persons ability to distinguish fact from fantasy is the epistemological equivalent of rape." Noretta Koertge
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Dafyd
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I've never seen a post by ken that wasn't worth reading.
Prayers.
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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Gill H
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You have prayers from me and from Hugal too. Can't even begin to fathom how you must be feeling.
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*sigh* We can’t all be Alan Cresswell.
- Lyda Rose
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Wesley J
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One of the few Shippies I've met in RL, albeit briefly. Sadness.
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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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Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
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I was thinking about him this morning and am saddened by this news.
May God's love surround you all. Many prayers for his peace and prayer for those who care and tend him.
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Jack o' the Green
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A wonderful poster who always brought well informed and insightful discussion to the boards. Prayers for you both and the rest of your family and friends.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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My dear brother (deuce2 on these boards) had pancreatic cancer, also. I can fathom too well what you are going through.
My prayers for all of you.
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Even more so than I was before
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Gamaliel
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Oh no ... no ...
![[Frown]](frown.gif)
I met Ken for a few pints in London once. I'd always intended to do so again.
Please pass on our love. I'm gutted.
Words fail me. Please tell him he's loved and appreciated. Big time.
Gamaliel
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Let us with a gladsome mind
Praise the Lord for He is kind.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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My prayers are with you all.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Callan
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How easy it would be to live in England, if only one did not love her. - G.K. Chesterton
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Honest Ron Bacardi
Shipmate
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Persephone -
This is shocking news. I hadn't known he was ill, though had noticed his posting had stopped. As others have said more eloquently, he has always given so much time and energy to this community.
Please let your Dad know how much he meant to all of us, and me specifically. You will both be in my prayers.
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EloiseA
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Esmeralda
Ship's token UK Mennonite
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Persephone, I knew Ken was ill (as he'd posted on FB) but had no idea it was this bad. So sorry - especially as he's been the main active parent for you.
I would like to visit - hoping you'll either clear your inbox or PM me the details - I presume he's in South London (I'm in North). Good that there's a hospice available.
And of course, for him, you and all others involved.
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I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
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Louise
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I am so so sorry to hear that. I enjoyed Ken's posting and enjoyed meeting him all those years ago at a London shipmeet. So sad to hear
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Jack the Lass
Ship's airhead
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I'm not going to be able to come, but please know that I am thinking of and praying for ken, Persephone and busyknitter. Such awful news, one of my favourite shipmates, and I'm so glad I had the chance to meet ken over many London shipmeets and Greenbelts. Please give him my love and prayers.
[also, busyknitter, you may remember a school friend of ken's called Nigel P; he still lives in Brockley - he used to be my landlord, and told me that ken was instrumental in his own conversion. I hope you don't mind, but if you could PM me details I'd be happy to pass them onto Nigel in case he is able to visit]
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"My body is a temple - it's big and doesn't move." (Jo Brand)
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quetzalcoatl
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So sorry.
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I can't talk to you today; I talked to two people yesterday.
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Robert Armin
All licens'd fool
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Ken and I crossed swords on more than one occasion, and I've built up a lot of respect for the width of his knowledge. I remember him winning a Ship award some years back, and someone described him as a "diamond geezer", which seem to fit him well.
for Ken
for his family
As you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, may the Lord be with you.
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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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An die Freude
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Formerly JFH
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fletcher christian
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'God is love insaturable, love impossible to describe'
Staretz Silouan
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Beeswax Altar
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Losing sleep is something you want to avoid, if possible.
-Og: King of Bashan
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Emendator Liturgia
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While I've never crossed horns with Ken at any time, I have appreciated his forthrightness as well as his ability to value diverse opinions whilst not being able to agree with them.
for Ken
for all the family
for all here who feel pain at this news.
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Don't judge all Anglicans in Sydney by prevailing Diocesan standards!
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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My love to ken and his family. God be with you all.
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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dj_ordinaire
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No words...
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Flinging wide the gates...
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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I am so shocked and saddened by this news. As so many have said, please do tell ken how much he means to us here. May God's love surround you both.
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Meg the Red
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Prayers for al of you
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Hugs. Prayers. Crying.
[ 17. May 2014, 13:25: Message edited by: Schroedinger's cat ]
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Pomona
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I'm so sorry.
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Consider the work of God: Who is able to straighten what he has bent? [Ecclesiastes 7:13]
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L'organist
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Prayers for you all - make the most of every minute.
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Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
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Stejjie
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Can't really add much to what's been said already - just prayers for you all in this time.
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Rev per Minute
Shipmate
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I don't think ken ever said anything with which I disagreed, and that really is saying something. Prayers and best wishes for him, Persephone, and all his family and friends.
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"Allons-y!" "Geronimo!" "Oh, for God's sake!" The Day of the Doctor
At the end of the day, we face our Maker alongside Jesus. RIP ken
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Nenya
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I'm so sorry. Love and prayers for you all.
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They told me I was delusional. I nearly fell off my unicorn.
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kingsfold
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So sorry to hear.
Thoughts and prayers with you all,
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Raptor Eye
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Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Prayers ascending. I'd been worried but didn't realize just how serious things are.
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BroJames
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Love and prayers for ken and all the family. I always feel a connection with ken through Durham and South East London - though we've never met.
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BessLane
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It's all on me and I won't tell it.
formerly BessHiggs
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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So sorry to hear.
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This is the last sig I'll ever write for you...
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Ferdzy
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So very sorry to hear this.
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