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Jaqui was light.
She was love and kindness and radiance.
She was an artist and a musician and a tree planter and an activist.
She believed in the goodness of people and the promise of love on this earth.
She gave her light freely and generously to her family, her friends, her community and the world. And perhaps she did not keep enough of that light for herself.
She shared with no one but her journal how she struggled with a darkness that was the cost of sending out so much light; her strength and joy masked the fear and sadness deep within her. We will never know where it came from - only that it so terrified her that she would not share it with anyone.
We cannot let the memory of her fade without acknowledging the most unbearable truth: in that moment, the darkness won. She chose to leave us.
How can we possibly move forward after such a shattering loss?? What is the future without Jaqui in it?
Let it be a future where we connect, truly, to the people we love. Where we share not just our greatest joys and happiness but also our worst fears and deepest heartaches. Where we look deeper and ask our loved ones how they are and we truly listen to their answers. Where we put away our phones and bask in the comfort of real human connection. Where we trust the people we love with our darkest secrets and know that they will honour our confidence with compassion and caring - and help. Where even the strongest light can falter but can borrow another’s spark to be relit and shine ever stronger.
Jaqui will no longer speak for herself. But each of you - the hundreds of people to whom she passed her light and the thousands who have been touched by our loss - can speak for her.
Remember her light but remember her darkness too. Know that, in that moment, she could not see her way back to the light. Talk about her. Mourn the extraordinary loss of her future. Love people every day and do not let the light she gifted you be extinguished - use it as a spark to spread radiance into every part of this world.
See the beauty in the people and places around you. See the beauty inside you.
She is forever part of you. Look up.
- Jaqui’s Mom, Nathalie
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