Susan Harkins
ssharkins at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 19:25:25 CDT 2011
I was trying to think if his mom would like my copies of the articles we wrote -- some of them were in print, in IMA and a few others. I thought about sending her the actual journals. It seems kind of silly, they won't really want to read them, but... do you think she'd want them? He probably got a copy, but if they find them, they probably won't realize what they're dealing with -- will most likely think they're just old technical journals and throw them out. On the other hand, they might not care -- I just don't know -- it's not like they're great literature or anything, but I think... if it were my son, I'd want them. I just don't know what to do. Susan H. > One of the things that is especially helpful to children struggling with > grief is a memory book. Since our memories of Drew are "virtual", we > couldn't contribute photos or such, but the archives must have many > threads > that include the outrageous exchanges we had over the years with Drew in > there fanning the flames. I wonder if it would be possible to put > something > together with snippets of his humor and insight and some typical teasing > that might serve to remind her as the years pass of the kind of person her > father was. Those could be put together in a scrapbook of sorts using > online services and sent to Drew's family. We could even collaborate with > them in creating something like that that included photos and such they > would like to use to remember him and to preserve his memory. I we > covered > the cost, that would be a great memorial, and we could provide copies for > each member of his family.