Saturday, January 20, 2024
TIL of the passing of my great friend Allison, and it's just absolutely devastating. Our thirteen-year acquaintance dated back to when she first came to Markel, and it was something of a relationship on the fringe @ first, but then blossomed over time due to our common interests and struggles, and increased all the more so in the wake of my own wife's death. She stated that anytime I had something on my mind of which I needed to unload, she'd always be willing to bend an ear. At the workplace our preferred place of occasional lunching was (the now late and lamented) TGI Fridays only a short walk from the business, and later on, after our respective departure from the job, we'd meet for eats @ our favorite hangout, The Hat, nearby to her SV residence. We'd regularly text-message, either offering encouragements to each other, note special days of observance, or trade-off unique English words, then create sentences w/ the use of those to keep our minds continually active in regards to the unusual and offbeat. She was certainly a welcome support-system for me in my time of challenge for which I'm eternally grateful, and I hope that I was able to do the same in turn for her. I knew she had her own life's difficulties to bear and face in different areas, but I trust that she has now found whatever true peace and happiness she seemed to long for toward the end. She will forevermore have a very special, deep and meaningful place in my heart, and I'll always cherish and never forget her. I love you too, dearest Allison. To borrow a line from the film "The Last Samurai", I shall miss our conversations. Such a loss for all of us; you were taken much too soon...
My condolences go to everyone in her family.
"Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains."
– Khalil Gibran
