<p>Another case of “blind justice.” ;)</p>
<p>I am checking in to report I finished the brick project (felt/embroidered covered brick with a “Keep on Dancing” theme.) It will be part of an auction to raise money for the Breast Cancer Alliance. It was something I worked on all summer and during the time LTS was ill.</p>
<p>I am so happy with the way it turned out! Real artists paint these bricks and no way am I in that league, but my needlework was successful, I think. :)</p>
<p>congrats, mommusic!!!</p>
<p>Came across this today, and it reminded me of LTS:</p>
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<p>Maybe it’s not as “deep” as some of Epiph’s ancient stuff, but this one really nails it, binx. Thanks for posting it!</p>
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<p>–Han-shan, (8th or 9th cent. CE)</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T’ang poet Han-Shan: Han-Shan, Burton Watson: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Mountain-Poems-Tang-Han-Shan/dp/0231034504]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Mountain-Poems-Tang-Han-Shan/dp/0231034504)</p>
<p>(P.S. Taking my cue from padad’s exit a while back, the time has now come, I think, for me to bid adieu as well. Here, then, is one last poem, “Haiku,” by Ron Padgett:
[Amazon.com:</a> You Never Know: Ron Padgett: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/You-Never-Know-Ron-Padgett/dp/1566891280]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/You-Never-Know-Ron-Padgett/dp/1566891280))</p>
<p>say it ain’t so epistrophy…
thank you so very much for the solace and support you shared with us all</p>
<p>Thank you and Godspeed, epistrophy!</p>
<p>I have enjoyed your posts on this thread and learned something from them, thank you . </p>
<p>Goodbye and good luck.</p>
<p>I have also enjoyed your posts, epistrophy. Best wishes.</p>
<p>Epistrophy and Adad, many thanks from me as well.</p>
<p>I’ve been lurking all this while.</p>
<p>My heart is broken that LTS has died. I cannot believe that a voice that strong and resonant one day just ceases to sound. But I suppose that’s the terrible paradox of being human.</p>
<p>I have only known her anonymously, on the Internet. What right do I have to grieve, to mourn. Really, honestly, none. But people do what they may not have the right to do.</p>
<p>I also wore my red shoes on the day. I missed the prayer, I forgot. I felt terrible. All of that, all of my feelings, are nothing compared to LTS’s daughter. Girl, if you ever read these posts, just gather some small comfort from the fact that the love you felt for your mother was in part just what a girl child feels for her mom, and in part what we have all felt. She was a voice to hear and listen to and follow.</p>
<p>Me, I have grown my hair longer. I have spoken up more often. I have wished for my daughter the courage of LTS. I don’t have it. It’s far too late. But I wish it for my daughter and all our daughters.</p>
<p>We are all anonymous. Well, at least many of us are. I will only say that in my life LTS has formed a little drop, or maybe an island, or maybe just a leaf in autumn. Something that stands out. Thank you LTS. Thank you so much for sharing all you shared. </p>
<p>And I had tears in my eyes when you died. I just wish I knew it mattered somewhere to someone close to you. Ave atque vale.</p>
<p>Thank you so much, Epistrophy, for your dedication to providing LTS and all of us with such beautiful and inspirational material over this past year. I will never forget you!</p>
<p>Any one find a news article about LTS’ memorial? I have looked but not seen anything.</p>
<p>Epistrophy, I am grateful for your many upbeat articles for LTS over the past months, for the evocative haiku, and for the very apt peach blossom poem in conclusion. The images of nature’s cycles and life/death are soothing and somehow reassuring to me. I will be checking the library for the Japanese death poems and the volume linked above. Heck, I might even break down and order from Amazon. Your compassion has been evident throughout these posts. (And the Padgett Haiku – I think I’ll be hearing that one in my head for a long time!) Thank you.</p>
<p>I told my husband about this thread and how some posters took the time and effort to support a wonderful vibrant person with a serious, ultimately fatal illness. Then it occurred me that Epistrophy & padad are true friends in need. I admire their generosity and kindness to someone they have never met. </p>
<p>I was in a shoe store yesterday looking for red shoes - the assistant told me red is an “in” color this fall. Now if I see a pair of red shoes I will wonder if it’s fashion or a CC poster.</p>
<p>Thank you, epistrophy, for all that you have done. I still can’t believe that LTS lost her battle, but I know that all of us, in our own ways, helped her through this last year. </p>
<p>Alumother, what a moving and poignant post!</p>
<p>Epistrophy. You forever will be linked to LTS in my mind. You gave LTS a place to come to read about hope and gave her concrete stories of success that she could read over and over in tough times. It was a selfless act and you have inspired me to be a better person. Thank you for your posts of compassion. You make the world a better, kinder place.</p>
<p>And, from South Jersey- many thanks Epistrophy.</p>
<p>Epistrophy,</p>
<p>You have been absolutely amazing with contributions that you have given LTS in this thread. My heartfelt thanks to you. I hope that you pop in every now and then.</p>
<p>all the best.</p>
<p>S</p>
<p>I am watching the special, Stand Up to Cancer, that is a big fundraiser for cancer research. You can make a donation (standuptocancer.org) in memory of someone and I just made one in LTS’ memory, knowing how she felt about research. It did feel like a way to carry on something that was so important to her.</p>