You know what had me crying to the point of ugliness? The Craig's List post of her furniture. She wasn't her material possessions but disposing of the things that held her everyday life hit me like a ton of bricks. I shouldn't be surprised because I felt the same when we finally got around to going through Rob's stuff. I had the luxury of waiting until I was ready to deal. I'm sorry the LAistas and her family do not. This is all incredibly cruel and unfair and I'm tired of people dying.
ita's thread
A place where we can talk about ita, miss ita, and share information about memorials. The hugging started over here in Natter.
Hec suggested I have her Troy and Abed in the Morning mug, and that's the closest to breaking down in actual tears I've come so far. I don't feel like I deserve it, for one, but she was always making "Troy and Abed in the Moooooooorning" riffs. That is a very core sense of ita that I have from my interactions with her. And you know me, I am all about imbuing material objects with deeper meaning, I wrote a whole fucking play about it.
Season six of Community is coming up and when they do an inevitable "Troy and Abed in the Mooooooorning" joke somehow (SOMEHOW THEY WILL DO IT EVEN IF THEY DON'T GET DONALD GLOVER), she won't hear it.
Ginger, it looks like there is a purple scarf in Lee's post. I think it would be lovely to wrap around your shoulders or neck when you're receiving a treatment. It could be a hug from her when you might most need one.
I'm with Ginger. Anything small and not valuable--a pebble, a pencil, anything her eye fell on, that she touched.
Or, not. This is enough, really. This collective missing of her and acknowledging her loss.
But it is both heartbreaking and smile-making to see those things. Thank you, Lee.
Yes. Thank you, Lee.
So grateful for everything everyone is doing and for sharing it here. The obituary is a lovely tribute.
I think I "liked" something before I realized what the pictures were, Lee. It was just a like, not a request. I love that those little treasures will be... treasured still.
For me, the thing that would mean most would be a pen or pencil of hers. I only had very casual interaction with ita until the past couple of years, when I started getting back into artwork. I don't feel like I got to know her as well as many of you all did, but I was just starting to get a real taste of it when - poof. Gone.
I cannot tell you all how much I miss the lost opportunities.
There is so much wonderful amazing hair among you all.
That obituary is beautiful.
Hec, your mix is so good I can't listen to it right now because I'm going to cry and have to TCOB. And that's on shuffle (sorry). In the right order I might shatter entirely.