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Thursday, 20 January 05 :: rip joanie mcgowan

i just found out about it, in the slant of the eugene weekly.. joanie mcgowan is gone.

who was she? someone who came to eugene and made me laugh on 2 different occasions. she was an activist who lived in ashland. she printed up t-shirts and bumper stickers that say 'its never to late to SAVE THE WORLD.'

its such a shame that someone who made so many many people laugh committed suicide. her death is a loss for the activist community in oregon.

goddess bless you joanie. i hope that the peace you couldn't find on this side, you've found over there. peace be with your soul.

here's a great blog entry on her life and death.

posted by brooke at January 20, 2005 02:05 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.