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Wednesday, 19 September 07 :: CT

long time readers of this weblog will remember a year ago, how i wrote about the death of this young woman who i'd never met, yet who's story helped me to better process and understand my own father's battle with this damn cancer thing - who's story has touched my heart deeply.

christi thomas's mother has continued to write in their weblog over the last year. she has continued to share her story with complete strangers. i have no idea why angela thomas has done this, but, honestly, i'm glad she has. though i tend to be one who is touched deeply by stories like the thomas's, angela's story, christi's story, continues to affect me to a greater degree than so many other stories. and, honestly, that i get to support these strangers is a true honour.

it was a year ago today that christi died. 9 years old, 9am on 9/19. it is an anniversary her family is suffering through. if you have a moment today to think about strangers, i'm sure christi's family would be terribly humbled if you thought about them.

posted by brooke at September 19, 2007 12:49 AM

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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.