Today is the third anniversary of Bill’s passing. The fact that it’s on a Saturday this year makes me want to say “OY” in a big way.
I expect I had much the same experience as y’all: there we were in the throes of pandemic lockdown, getting the idea that it wasn’t quite going to be piles of bodies in the streets but was still pretty bad, and one of our daily lifelines to sanity just…stopped for several days. I remember feeling vaguely irritated with Bill, while realizing that was unreasonable of me. Then after a few days I started to worry, and then we got the news.
It’s amazing and wonderful that this wee community has continued.
RIP, Bill.
And here’s a link back to Kilby’s most excellent birthday post for Bill, back in July:
https://cidu.info/2023/07/08/birthday-memorial-for-cidu-bill/
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RIP, Bill. Thankful for this community you started and hope we are doing a good job of carrying on your work.
GNU Bill. Mind how you go.
No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
Bill will be with us for a long time yet.
Since, as I have mentioned before, apparently Bill is in the same cemetery as my dad ,I plan to try to find his grave when next I visit my dad and leave a stone on his gravestone also (a peculiar Jewish custom) – I have not done so since the start of Covid (nor have we visited my late in-laws who are in a different cemetery). I know my sister has visited dad (and our grandparents and our great uncle – all near each other) so I know that is all with them.
(Mom is still alive at 94.)
@ Meryl A. (5) – If you do manage to find it, please take a picture and post it here, or submit the photo via E-Mail or using the “Suggest a CIDU” form, and I will take care of adding the image to this post.