I wanted to close the Healing thread for Chain because I thought it would really suck to have that thread revived by some unsuspecting and well-wishing returning member or newbie that didn't read the whole way through before posting their well wishes....
Also because I wanted to do two things here--1) offer a space for us to remember Chain and 2) coordinate our own memorial of his life. I know his family is going through the stress and complicated business of dealing with his death, and I expect Juni will be posting about helping them out with the material aspect of that later.
In the mean time, since we are a global community, and spread out over mutiple timezones, I thought that we could coordinate a moment of rememberance that will travel around the world:
I propose that as you are able, at 8pm Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of your local timezone, you take a moment or two or twenty, in whatever way that is in accordance with your beliefs and practices, to remember our friend. (I picked doing this over three days because its a good number, and it will let more folks participate, I hope...also, if we wait a few days to start it, it will give us time to contact some of our less active members)
What every you choose to do, and whatever thoughts you have for Chain, for his family, etc, can go here. Pictures, offerings, prayers, etc... For many of us, this is nothing short of heartbreaking. I've known (and argued and agreed with and grumbled at and comisserated with) Chain for about 10 years...for Medusa and a few others, its been even longer. Some of you have known him for a shorter time, and others maybe not at all...and that's okay too.
But it should be known that everything that this forum is and strives to be--a place where all religions are to be treated with respect (not just Pagan ones), where magic lives side by side with reason, where we debate the idea and not the person, and where we don't piss on the carpet is due in large share to this man.
~Thalassa
Also because I wanted to do two things here--1) offer a space for us to remember Chain and 2) coordinate our own memorial of his life. I know his family is going through the stress and complicated business of dealing with his death, and I expect Juni will be posting about helping them out with the material aspect of that later.
In the mean time, since we are a global community, and spread out over mutiple timezones, I thought that we could coordinate a moment of rememberance that will travel around the world:
I propose that as you are able, at 8pm Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of your local timezone, you take a moment or two or twenty, in whatever way that is in accordance with your beliefs and practices, to remember our friend. (I picked doing this over three days because its a good number, and it will let more folks participate, I hope...also, if we wait a few days to start it, it will give us time to contact some of our less active members)
What every you choose to do, and whatever thoughts you have for Chain, for his family, etc, can go here. Pictures, offerings, prayers, etc... For many of us, this is nothing short of heartbreaking. I've known (and argued and agreed with and grumbled at and comisserated with) Chain for about 10 years...for Medusa and a few others, its been even longer. Some of you have known him for a shorter time, and others maybe not at all...and that's okay too.
But it should be known that everything that this forum is and strives to be--a place where all religions are to be treated with respect (not just Pagan ones), where magic lives side by side with reason, where we debate the idea and not the person, and where we don't piss on the carpet is due in large share to this man.
~Thalassa
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