Comments on: Lina’s Gone http://www.tellthebees.org/2008/07/19/linas-gone/ Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:39:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve http://www.tellthebees.org/2008/07/19/linas-gone/comment-page-2/#comment-1323 Steve Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:54:35 +0000 http://www.tellthebees.org/?p=76#comment-1323 God has his ways, but I'll never understand when he takes the good ones. I didn't expect to cry today, you this just got me. God has his ways, but I’ll never understand when he takes the good ones. I didn’t expect to cry today, you this just got me.

]]> By: Joshua Miller http://www.tellthebees.org/2008/07/19/linas-gone/comment-page-2/#comment-463 Joshua Miller Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:06:17 +0000 http://www.tellthebees.org/?p=76#comment-463 I just heard from Seth Borgos that Lina had died. I am shocked. Now I've read the "Tell the Bees" blog and got the whole sad, although inspiring, story. I met Lina when I became an organizer for ACORN in 1976. She was beautiful and charming and nice. Years later I visited her and Chloe on her farm near Penn State. Then, she stopped in Easton, PA for a short visit, perhaps on the way to New England. I wish that I could see her again; I wish that I had kept in better touch and contacted her while she was sick. As the blog and the comments show, she was extraordinary. I just heard from Seth Borgos that Lina had died. I am shocked. Now I’ve read the “Tell the Bees” blog and got the whole sad, although inspiring, story. I met Lina when I became an organizer for ACORN in 1976. She was beautiful and charming and nice. Years later I visited her and Chloe on her farm near Penn State. Then, she stopped in Easton, PA for a short visit, perhaps on the way to New England. I wish that I could see her again; I wish that I had kept in better touch and contacted her while she was sick. As the blog and the comments show, she was extraordinary.

]]> By: Katharine Pearson Criss http://www.tellthebees.org/2008/07/19/linas-gone/comment-page-2/#comment-449 Katharine Pearson Criss Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:06:49 +0000 http://www.tellthebees.org/?p=76#comment-449 Dear Chloe, Moriah, Craig and Lina's family and friends, I am blessed to have known Lina in this life through our work together in the early days. She was amazing! My thoughts and prayers are with you and I shall keep close my memory of her in the years to come. Love and peace, Katharine Dear Chloe, Moriah, Craig and Lina’s family and friends, I am blessed to have known Lina in this life through our work together in the early days. She was amazing! My thoughts and prayers are with you and I shall keep close my memory of her in the years to come. Love and peace, Katharine

]]> By: Sherra Picketts http://www.tellthebees.org/2008/07/19/linas-gone/comment-page-2/#comment-448 Sherra Picketts Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:46:11 +0000 http://www.tellthebees.org/?p=76#comment-448 So very sorry. Evidently, Lina was a lightworker. Given Craig's chronicles of her adventurous "travels" these past several weeks, she evidently still is. I wish Lina peace & adventure wherever her spirit is, and much peace & love to her family. So very sorry. Evidently, Lina was a lightworker. Given Craig’s chronicles of her adventurous “travels” these past several weeks, she evidently still is.

I wish Lina peace & adventure wherever her spirit is, and much peace & love to her family.

]]> By: Mimi Pickering http://www.tellthebees.org/2008/07/19/linas-gone/comment-page-2/#comment-447 Mimi Pickering Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:12:19 +0000 http://www.tellthebees.org/?p=76#comment-447 I had lost touch with Lina since she worked at Appalshop many years ago so was unaware of her long and brave fight, and very much saddened by her passing. On Saturday I happened to be looking for some family information and opened a folder with notes, clippings, a memorial service program, from when my brother Joe died in 1992. There I found a note from Lina "offering with love" a meditation on grief that a friend had given her when Bert was killed and which she said "for whatever reasons, it really helped to lift the weight of the loss." She was a truly wonderful and loving person. I hope all of us who knew her at some point in her exceptional life can remember her brightness and let that lift the weight of her loss. Love to all --Mimi I had lost touch with Lina since she worked at Appalshop many years ago so was unaware of her long and brave fight, and very much saddened by her passing.

On Saturday I happened to be looking for some family information and opened a folder with notes, clippings, a memorial service program, from when my brother Joe died in 1992. There I found a note from Lina “offering with love” a meditation on grief that a friend had given her when Bert was killed and which she said “for whatever reasons, it really helped to lift the weight of the loss.”

She was a truly wonderful and loving person. I hope all of us who knew her at some point in her exceptional life can remember her brightness and let that lift the weight of her loss.

Love to all –Mimi

]]> By: Jack Chellis http://www.tellthebees.org/2008/07/19/linas-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Jack Chellis Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:58:55 +0000 http://www.tellthebees.org/?p=76#comment-443 Craig, I heard the news today of Lina's passing and am so sorry for all you and your family have been through in the past three years. Although our lives have gone in different directions and we have fallen out of touch, my thoughts are with you and your girls in this most difficult time. Too many thoughts I can't seem to put into words... Love Jack,Claire, and Alex Craig,

I heard the news today of Lina’s passing and am so sorry for all you and your family have been through in the past three years.

Although our lives have gone in different directions and we have fallen out of touch, my thoughts are with you and your girls in this most difficult time.

Too many thoughts I can’t seem to put into words…

Love Jack,Claire, and Alex

]]> By: Sebastian and family from Bonn in Germany http://www.tellthebees.org/2008/07/19/linas-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Sebastian and family from Bonn in Germany Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:41:16 +0000 http://www.tellthebees.org/?p=76#comment-442 Dear Craig, Chloe and Moriah, we just came back from a 2-weeks holiday trip and were shocked to learn, that Lina has gone for ever. We immediately started to talk about her great personality, her amazing life and passing and the many times she must have suffered. We remembered many details of our visit last year, the relaxed and modest, almost humorous way, she talked about the disease, trying to push it all aside, although many signs were showing a threatening progression of the desease. The fotographs we took last year in Cape Elizabeth with her, many of them at the beach together with you Moriah, will remain as a very important treasure in our life. The warm-hearted and welcoming way, in which Lina and you all received us there, came back to us as a great rememberence immediately. That Lina could not continue a healthy life, as we all can do, that is extremely hard to accept and merely not to understand. Sebastian Dear Craig, Chloe and Moriah,
we just came back from a 2-weeks holiday trip and were shocked to learn, that Lina has gone for ever. We immediately started to talk about her great personality, her amazing life and passing and the many times she must have suffered. We remembered many details of our visit last year, the relaxed and modest, almost humorous way, she talked about the disease, trying to push it all aside, although many signs were showing a threatening progression of the desease. The fotographs we took last year in Cape Elizabeth with her, many of them at the beach together with you Moriah, will remain as a very important treasure in our life. The warm-hearted and welcoming way, in which Lina and you all received us there, came back to us as a great rememberence immediately. That Lina could not continue a healthy life, as we all can do, that is extremely hard to accept and merely not to understand.
Sebastian

]]> By: dan http://www.tellthebees.org/2008/07/19/linas-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-441 dan Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:01:29 +0000 http://www.tellthebees.org/?p=76#comment-441 thank you for going public with the story of lina's amazing life and passing. great blessings to your family for this time of change! Dan Vie - vancouver bc thank you for going public with the story of lina’s amazing life and passing. great blessings to your family for this time of change!

Dan Vie – vancouver bc

]]> By: Brian Dunn http://www.tellthebees.org/2008/07/19/linas-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-440 Brian Dunn Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:51:15 +0000 http://www.tellthebees.org/?p=76#comment-440 Our deepest thoughts are with you Craig, Chloe, and Moriah. Lina was a wonderful, caring person. Only the best for you. -The Dunn family Our deepest thoughts are with you Craig, Chloe, and Moriah. Lina was a wonderful, caring person. Only the best for you.
-The Dunn family

]]> By: Behdad http://www.tellthebees.org/2008/07/19/linas-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Behdad Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:03:22 +0000 http://www.tellthebees.org/?p=76#comment-438 So Sorry Craig. What a loss. Behdad London So Sorry Craig. What a loss. Behdad London

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