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Tuesday, 19 September 06 :: godspeed christi thomas

yes, her mom writes about how many lives christi thomas affected, and as you have witnessed here on this weblog, mine was one of them. its very rare that i write about a strangers life as i have christi's, but its very rare that i am as affected by a stranger as i have been by 4 strangers. it is a gift when that happens, and i am grateful for the gift i was given. thank you thomas team for your gift, i just wish it hadn't been wrapped in such an awful package. i just wish i would have never had to recieve it, and you give it.

though christi is gone, as we all know, mourning is a long process. the thomas team has just begun their journey. i wish for them support for the rest of their lives, because that is how long they will be living with this pain.

“For as long as I shall live I will testify to love,
I'll be a witness in the silences when words are not enough.
With every breath I take I will give thanks to God above,
For as long as I shall live I will testify to love.”
-“Testify to Love”, Avalon

posted by brooke at September 19, 2006 09:22 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.