Perfect. Thank you Tep. There are more hands than yours setting the lantern afloat, you know? Even if we're not there in person.
Wash: I'm not leaving her side, Mal. Don't ask me again. Mal: I wasn't asking. I was telling.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Beverly - Sep 19, 2015 2:39:08 pm PDT #2038 of 3157
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Steph L. - Sep 19, 2015 4:44:43 pm PDT #2039 of 3157
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
ita had 2 lanterns: I made one with photos because I am bad at making my own decorative art, and Casper and Dillo decorated one, including a drawing of ita doing martial arts and many fireflies.
Here's a link to a Flickr album with photos of all 4 sides of both lanterns, and the lanterns on the lake: [link] (in case anyone wasn't familiar with Flickr, you can click on the photos to see them larger).
I kept taking photos, trying to follow ita's lanterns as they went out onto the lake, and in this one, you can see her lantern is just right of center; it's the one with 2 photos on it: [link]
It was really a lovely ceremony, and we all were amused that ita would have appreciated the kilted man playing bagpipes as the lanterns were set on the water.
sarameg - Sep 19, 2015 4:46:41 pm PDT #2040 of 3157
Thank you.
Kate P. - Sep 19, 2015 4:52:29 pm PDT #2041 of 3157
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh man, that brought on the tears. Thank you, Steph, flea, and Hil, for doing that for her.
Steph L. - Sep 19, 2015 5:00:14 pm PDT #2042 of 3157
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I have one small regret. People could put their loved one's name on a list read over the PA as the lanterns were launched. I didn't do it because I thought they might mispronounce her name.
Only belatedly did I realize that I really, REALLY wanted to give them the name "ita Moon."
WindSparrow - Sep 19, 2015 5:00:59 pm PDT #2043 of 3157
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
My darlings.
JZ - Sep 19, 2015 5:05:09 pm PDT #2044 of 3157
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
So beautiful, so perfect.
quester - Sep 19, 2015 5:07:01 pm PDT #2045 of 3157
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Thank you guys for doing this. The pictures are wonderful. As long as we all remember her, she still lives in us.
-t - Sep 19, 2015 5:39:08 pm PDT #2046 of 3157
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
So lovely. Thank you, Ohio-istas
erikaj - Sep 19, 2015 5:48:29 pm PDT #2047 of 3157
Always Anti-fascist!
Maybe that was why I wanted my birthday dinner to be Jamaican. My brother might order the goat next time...if he does, I'll taste it.