Shared Grief

kielle is dead.

I didn't know her. But - there are roughly fifty to seventy-five people who may reasonably read this entry; without the influence of things she created, I would have known two of you.

Two.

I wish I'd done that math in time to thank her.

And I am more glad that I can say that she died with people around her who loved her, and that she died knowing full well of that love.

For everyone reading this: thank you, thank you now, no matter whether or not I've taken time out to thank you before, for the things you do and the things you make and the ways, small and large, in which you've touched other people's lives.

For those reading this who did know Kielle: I wish there were somehow something I could do to make the loss easier to bear.

For Kielle by any and every name: rest well, and may you be with the people you love again.