Snowy day reads for y'all:
A Mother's Crime
"The golden dream had become a nightmare long before Lucille Miller was charged with murder. Her daughter, Debra J. Miller, remembers the day her family woke up..."
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/02/magazine/tm-dreams14
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Something nicer:
The life of Shelagh Gordon
"Sometimes, even after all this time, a newspapers work simply takes my breath away. Such was the case with The Shelagh Gordon Project.
Last winter, the Toronto Star sought to describe the impact of one ordinary person on the lives of those around her. From its own obituaries, editors pulled the name of Shelagh Gordon, who died on Feb. 13. When Gordons obituary appeared in the Star, with its description of her as our rock, our good deed doer, our tradition keeper, our moral compass, we knew wed found the perfect subject, editors wrote.
The Stars response was likely unprecedented in the annals of journalism. It sent 20 staffers to the womans funeral. Another half-dozen editors, designers and online experts also took part. The result is beyond spectacular...
Our world is a collection of small revelations, of little people doing things we think of as ordinary. Community newspapers exist to bring those snapshots of unexamined life into focus. I was profoundly moved by The Shelagh Gordon Project and I bet you will be too. How can you shed an extraordinary light on the ordinary in your hometown?"
https://wicknews.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/the-life-of-shelagh-gordon/
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A sad, but lovely story con't:
Shelagh was here an ordinary, magical life
Shelagh Gordon died suddenly at 55 in February, 2012, leaving an ordinary but magical life. A Star team of reporters and photographers joined those paying witness.
"I met Shelagh Gordon at her funeral.
She was soap-and-water beautiful, vital, unassuming and funny without trying to be. I could feel her spirit tripping over a purse in the funeral hall and then laughing from the floor.
She was both alone and crowded by love. In another era, shed have been considered a spinster no husband, no kids. But her home teemed with dogs, sisters, nieces, nephews and her life partner a gay man who would pass summer nights reading books in bed beside her wearing matching reading glasses...
Shelagh made people around her feel not just loved but coveted. That was the golden thread that stitched together the ordinary seams of her life...
Funerals are as much collective meditations as tearful goodbyes to one person. We use the departed life as a lens to assess our own. In that way, Shelagh Gordon is the perfect choice of an allegedly ordinary local woman whose life was actually huge in scope and as worthy of scrutiny as any big-life celebrity. She is you. She is us...
Shelagh had found her calling loving people fiercely and with abandon..
...What is a life worth?
In the past, I have often answered this question with achievements campaigns, masterpieces, spiritual or literal changes to humankind and the world. The measure, Ive thought, is Sophie Scholl or Charles Darwin or Nelson Mandela.
Shelaghs life offers another lens. She didnt change the world forcibly, but she changed many people in it. She lightened them. She inspired them, though she likely didnt realize it. She touched them in simple ways most of us dont because we are too caught-up and lazy.
Her life reveals that it doesnt take much to make a difference every day just deep, full love and that can be sewn with many different kinds of stitches..."
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/03/16/shelagh_was_here_an_ordinary_magical_life.html
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(Shelagh Gordon died suddenly at 55 in February, 2012, leaving an ordinary but magical life.)
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Kind World #6: An Ordinary, Beautiful Life
"Shelagh Gordon was another name in the obituaries, an ordinary woman who had died suddenly of a massive brain aneurysm at the age of 55. But something in her obituary stood out to a journalist at the Toronto Star. For weeks, Catherine Porter had been combing the paper, looking to profile an ordinary person through the perspectives of the family and friends he or she had left behind. What emerged was an extraordinary portrait.
Gordons story is told by her oldest sister, Heather Cullimore, her niece, Jessica Cullimore, her best friend, Andy Schulz, and by Porter for WBURs Kind World..."
http://www.wbur.org/2014/01/08/an-ordinary-beautiful-life
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Shelagh Was Here
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/shelagh_gordon.html
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