[Jewelry making - Article 00327] - Re: [Orchid] David Barzilay "Lord of the Rings" passed away

[Lisa Orlando]

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    I got the Digest last night and Hanuman's headline was such a shock
    that it took me a while to stop crying enough to read the rest of it. 

    David had reached out to me when I asked for help with my tourmaline
    ring, and we had begun exchanging brief off-list emails: first about
    politics (he was so funny), then about meditation and the (related)
    possibility of leaving California. In his last email, he said that he
    and his wife were considering a move to rural Virginia. But I was
    slow in responding, and now I discover that I sent my response the
    day after he died. 

    So much for plans. What a reminder that everything here will soon
    pass away. 

    But, for me, it's also a revelation of something I didn't quite
    realize: how many of the people I love and cherish have appeared to
    me only as words on a screen. I love this community, and I love many
    of you as individuals, and some of you, with whom I have shared (and
    who have shared with me) in deeply personal ways, I love very deeply. 

    Love is a miracle anyway, but what do we make of this strange new
    vehicle that can create love so easily? At the risk of sounding
    inflated, I wonder, could we be weaving part of a web that can save
    the world? I think David would like that idea. 

    Thank you, Hanuman, for facilitating this love. 

Lisa Orlando
Aphrodite's Ornaments

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