On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

These stories are about outlier cases, sure. That they happen at all? Still worth knowing about.


https://www.upworthy.com/bereavement-leave-for-new-hire

Just announced by his wife and writing partner, dianeduane:

https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/783067867808776192/peter-morwood

Diane, I am so sorry.

Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.

Erin O'Neil died today.

If you were part of the Ottawa, ODSP, Disabled-Rights, CDB-support communities on Twitter, you might have known her as "veganlovebunny".

To me, she was a relatively recent acquaintance there, and her last years were a struggle that finally exhausted her. Environmental sensitivites, autism, lymphatic issues, disability "supports" that weren't doing the work of helping her, abusive fellow tenants, a landlord that wasn't paying attention except to punish her complaints.

She ended herself rather than be evicted from the housing she was barely holding onto in Manor Park.

She deserved better, a longer and kinder life. Friends who weren't so distracted by our own struggles, too.

I never got to meet her in person, and now I never will.

Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.

I just saw the notice this morning:

https://gridlore.dreamwidth.org/2075928.html

I don't think we got to know each other very well, and it's still a loss.

He was the second major Spider-Man artist. Following upon Steve Ditko himself can't have been easy.

Now he's gone.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/legendary-marvel-comics-artist-john-romita-sr-passes-at-age-93/

For those of you learning of this from me first...I'm sorry. I just stumbled onto the news via my Reading List.

https://eftychia.dreamwidth.org/2978096.html?thread=5681456#cmt5681456

Never got to know her well, and she was part of several of the ongoing conversations of this venue, and - if memory serves - LiveJournal before that. I'm grateful nonetheless that she lived and that we got to know her at all.

I've noted this in years past: in 2002, on Christmas Day, my father died of metastasized renal cell cancer. Some forty years earlier, a cousin of mine was born on Christmas Day.

The day has been a mixed blessing for my extended family across the decades, and I wait and wonder what twists the occasion will bring this time.

And so...here is us again. Those of us still here, anyway.

It's been a wild year, running the full range of emotion from joy to despair.

I wish you the best possible greetings of the Season, by whatever Name(s) you choose to honour it. I wish you peace, hope, wisdom, freedom, justice, and love. If you do not find them, may they find you and may it bring joy to you when they do.