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Uploaded by me on Flickr.
I’ve been coveting this shirt for quite a while now and I finally found it, a few days before I leave Toronto. I think it’s the logo of a local rec league hockey team.
Another furious day of packing, followed by some time hanging out with a very new friend. Doesn’t it always happen that you meet great people just as you’re about to move out of town? To think that I spent two years here not having a clue how to go about meeting people I get along with. Thinking about it, my friends from this Toronto phase of my life, I’ve met them all through internet communities - I started with a hockey site, then a gardening site, and now, a photo-sharing site. Some people overlap between a few of these places. I think I’ve been really lucky, meeting the people that I have. Most of these friendships played itself out strictly online while some bled over into real-life, as it did with the friend I met with today. I really do believe that these connections formed over the internet have been very meaningful ones for me, especially so during a period of profound isolation. My life is going to change quite a bit over the next couple of months - my social life may play out a little more out in the so-called real world, but I am crossing fingers that these connections I’ve found will continue to thrive.
I guess I’m feeling a little sentimental today, having tired myself out being in the moving “zone” for a few hours, packing away my clothes. After dinner, I took my dog out for a long walk around the park. We have a ritual now where we walk until we get to our designated bench. Usually, the breeze off the water is very soothing and my dog seems to enjoy sitting there as I smoke a cigarette. When I’m done with my habit, I spend a few minutes showering her with affection, which she especially enjoys. Since she’s not moving with me, every time we go on our walks, I’m trying to treasure the specialness of it, hoping that her future walks will be filled with much pleasure and affection, for the walker and the walkee.
Thoughts of your great new journey occupy my mind and they really do delight me. With all the will in the world i wish you well, in life and all that it entails. Remember to be careful, but not to careful know when to grab it. Carpe Diem.
“Seize each day and cherish them dearly. Every day opportunities await us and we must decide whether to take the chance or play it safe. I encourage you to take the risks, for nothing is gained without them. May it live in your heart always.”
Comment by Patrick — July 15, 2005 @ 2:53 am
Rest in peace, dear Sakura. The world will not be the same without your spirit and brightness.
Comment by UrbanTiki — July 15, 2005 @ 11:40 pm
sakura, your love and light will be cherished. my prayers will accompany you on your way. rest in peace, i will miss you dearly.
Comment by vasta — July 16, 2005 @ 12:15 am
May peace guide you in your new travels. You will be greatly missed.
Comment by Katya — July 16, 2005 @ 12:37 am
Somehow really difficult, to read such happy words from someone so young, no longer here, and who I never got the chance to really know. Humbling. Makes me want to remind my loved ones, even those who may not know it, how much they mean. I hope she didn’t suffer too much, and is in whatever peace and place she believed in.
Comment by awfulsara — July 16, 2005 @ 1:30 am
i’ll never forget you
you became one of my best friends, my confidant, you were someone truly special and wonderful. i never got a chance to tell you just how much you meant to me and your faith in me kept me going for this past year and a half.
i know you’re up there, watching over the rest of us… God bless you. I’ll never forget this day.
Comment by shalini — July 16, 2005 @ 3:31 am
You helped me through some rough times and was always there to listen. You became a dear friend to me and my family. The kids always talk about their time in your backyard with the rocks and the swan.
RIP Sakura. I know that you are watching over us all with that wonderful smile and I will never forget you but miss you always.
Comment by Sherri — July 16, 2005 @ 4:11 am
Rest in peace, Sakura. I’m grateful for having known you. You were an integral part of our community, and also you were a tremendous person. My prayers are with you and your family.
Comment by RobDM — July 16, 2005 @ 4:25 am
You will be greatly missed. I will not forget the times you listened to me whine about my life and never once did you complain.
RIP Sakura
Comment by Darryl — July 16, 2005 @ 4:35 am
miss you, sakura.
Comment by Angel-A — July 16, 2005 @ 6:51 am
Sakura I so wish that your path to the future had ended much farther down life’s road. You were so kind, friendly, and generous. Bloom and grow forever Sakura. Your friends from all walks of life will remember you.
Comment by Monika — July 16, 2005 @ 7:03 am
Sakura,I did not have the pleasure to know you, but I mourn your passing nonetheless because we all did share a special vision as photographers, and there is one less beautiful and unique view of the world world tonight.
I will light a candle and pray for you.
Comment by Hellophotokitty — July 16, 2005 @ 7:17 am
Thank You Sakurako, for just being you. I will never forget you. R.I.P.
Comment by Brendan — July 16, 2005 @ 2:37 pm
Farewell, sweetheart. Until later.
Comment by Joel — July 16, 2005 @ 4:37 pm
What a beautiful last post…
You are a special person, Sakura. Heaven needs you and earth thanks you.
Comment by Anonymous — July 17, 2005 @ 4:10 am
Sakura, you will always be remembered. RIP.
Comment by Sandra — July 17, 2005 @ 4:18 am
Rest in peace Sakura.
Comment by Sonia — July 17, 2005 @ 1:53 pm
Such prophetic words, the world was about to open up and then suddenly shut like a trap door for the final time.
I had never even heard of you before, but am touched by the words you write - without knowing what the future held for you, especially as it reflects our changing times (good, bad, otherwise?).
Comment by James — July 17, 2005 @ 5:25 pm
I’d lost two close friends to the car crashes, i learned that when the shock goes away the mind attempts to reconcile the loss.
But today I’m not searching for a comfort of spiritual or intellectual explanation of this another tragical death.
dear Sakura, you left too early….
Comment by Angel-A — July 18, 2005 @ 12:29 am
Rest In Peace Sakura.
Comment by Patrick Murphy — July 18, 2005 @ 2:59 am
Goodbye, Sakura-chan. I think of the times we spent together over the years. Growing a friendship with you and our mutual friends at Georgetown. Seeing that friendship fray when we, as intense and insecure graduate students, lived together in Somerville. And then recovering it again once time and distance allowed us to remember that we truly were friends. In my mind’s eye, you, Tim and I are seated at a table in the PLO Cafe, eating eggs at 3 AM, laughing and enjoying our remembrances and the thrill of being together. I found you, I lost you, found you again and now have lost you, seemingly forever. But I will find you again and again in my heart and in my memory.
Comment by Josh — July 18, 2005 @ 9:13 pm
Dearest dearest Sakura, possessed of restless spirit and heart wide open. You were always loved and will always be. Thank you thank you thank you for being part of my life. Inasmuch as a life can be complete, mine could not have been without you. We were all blessed to know you. With loving memory, God bless you.
Comment by Paul Haught — July 18, 2005 @ 11:58 pm
Rest in peace, dear Sakura.
Comment by anumita_singha — July 19, 2005 @ 8:30 am
Thank you, Sakura, for the light you brought into this world.
Comment by Kathya — July 20, 2005 @ 10:04 am
May you rest in peace. We in Flickr will remember you.
Comment by Ryan Schultz (Quiplash) — July 20, 2005 @ 10:33 pm
Sakurako. You were my very first friend at Georgetown, and though our paths only crossed during college, I know for a fact I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing today, if I hadn’t known you. THANK you. You are in my thoughts, and I’m so so sad we won’t be meeting up at some college reunion, laughing at how silly we still are. God bless you.
Comment by Diane — August 3, 2005 @ 10:11 pm
Sakura,
It’s been past two months since you passed away. I knew you through our time at Princeton. At a place where undergraduate life is all about being extraordinary and competing, you were generous and shared so many things in the daily life that you loved with us.
Today I found this blog and found out more things you liked, more things you shared with others.
I know that no one can ever take over the roles you played- all that you contributed to this world. I won’t even try, I obviously can’t be you.
But I wanted to let you know that now when I see something that you liked, I’ve started to appreciate it, too. Like good music in the subway stops. Warm moments of tea, crisp leaves, words, people of all ages. So many things that shine without showing off, that I wouldn’t have paid attention to unless I knew someone cared for those.
That’s how you are in my every day life now.
Yoko
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Comment by testanchor838 — October 15, 2005 @ 11:52 pm
Wherever you are Sakura,which is probably comforting some poor soul with your angel wings, I wish you a Merry Christmas. You are missed, and I am thinking about you during these moments of reflection.
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Sakura, I came across your photos and faved some, left again for some time. I came again and then was shocked about your passing. May you have peace and love whereever you are. One time I will follow you … then let’s talk about everything.
Nao
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