Rakiba and Love
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EmmaaAAAH! <3
Mar 26, 2014, 11:29:19 PM3/26/14
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Hello Dear Hearts! GOOD GRIEF!!!
Look, I don't know if anyone even gets these e-mails anymore, but I just took a pretty wild trip down memory lane via our outrageously human and wondrous google group, and it MADE ME MISS YA'!
The reason for revisiting good ole' facilitation was two-fold. One, Rakiba is no longer with us and I can't believe she's gone. I needed to see her voice pop out at size 600 font (slight exaggeration) in e-mail form and I knew I would find just exactly that here. Two, a radical educators group that I'm a part of wants to start practicing modified consensus at our meeting tomorrow and I realized I'd sort of forgotten how to do it. This seemed like a good place to brush up. Looking through our old e-mails has satisfied both those aims and way more. Although it just makes loosing Rakiba feel all the more surreal.
Anyway, y'all probably are already aware, but Rakiba's Memorial (I still can't believe this is happening) is going down tomorrow at Central Methodist at 5:30. I don't really have words about all this, mostly just really sad feelers and lots of disbelief, but I sure would love to see y'all. If not tomorrow, then maybe we can get drinks or somethin' sometime soon and toast our lady.
I know a lot of us aren't around any more, or have drifted, or it's been years, but I hope y'all know, I love you lots. I miss you, and I miss this time, even when it was awful hard. AND IF I EVER DO SEE YOU I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU A HUG. With consent of course, with consent. Just to warn ya'. :D
That's all.
Hey!! A relatively pithy e-mail from me! A first! And I didn't call anybody a "chickadee" (that was for Rakiba, y'all know how she felt about that particular term of endearment).
Okay, smooth. (As Wayne used to say)
Stay dangerous.
Emma
Look, I don't know if anyone even gets these e-mails anymore, but I just took a pretty wild trip down memory lane via our outrageously human and wondrous google group, and it MADE ME MISS YA'!
The reason for revisiting good ole' facilitation was two-fold. One, Rakiba is no longer with us and I can't believe she's gone. I needed to see her voice pop out at size 600 font (slight exaggeration) in e-mail form and I knew I would find just exactly that here. Two, a radical educators group that I'm a part of wants to start practicing modified consensus at our meeting tomorrow and I realized I'd sort of forgotten how to do it. This seemed like a good place to brush up. Looking through our old e-mails has satisfied both those aims and way more. Although it just makes loosing Rakiba feel all the more surreal.
Anyway, y'all probably are already aware, but Rakiba's Memorial (I still can't believe this is happening) is going down tomorrow at Central Methodist at 5:30. I don't really have words about all this, mostly just really sad feelers and lots of disbelief, but I sure would love to see y'all. If not tomorrow, then maybe we can get drinks or somethin' sometime soon and toast our lady.
I know a lot of us aren't around any more, or have drifted, or it's been years, but I hope y'all know, I love you lots. I miss you, and I miss this time, even when it was awful hard. AND IF I EVER DO SEE YOU I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU A HUG. With consent of course, with consent. Just to warn ya'. :D
That's all.
Hey!! A relatively pithy e-mail from me! A first! And I didn't call anybody a "chickadee" (that was for Rakiba, y'all know how she felt about that particular term of endearment).
Okay, smooth. (As Wayne used to say)
Stay dangerous.
Emma
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