Comments on: Godspeed, Miles http://geekhabitat.com/1041/godspeed-miles/ Where geeks may dwell Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:25:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Noah http://geekhabitat.com/1041/godspeed-miles/#comment-18323 Noah Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:45:02 +0000 http://geekhabitat.com/1041/godspeed-miles/#comment-18323 I learned about Miles through reading your posts here, and though it was a very rough story for me to follow (for me, obviously, for more reasons than one), and though it certainly doesn't make this news any less wrenching to hear now... it makes me all the more grateful for him and all the lives he touched through the net. When Barry died, it amazed me how many of his friends and family came up to me telling me how grateful they were for the weblog and photo albums he left behind, a life we both lived together that we both kept a record of, that's still here after he's gone... and it's a true blessing to live in an age where we have this wonderful tool where voices like Miles' and Barry's can be heard, and some small spark of their immensely bright lives still burning here in this form. There's not one hour goes by where the grief is ever truly gone, I doubt there ever will be, but it still brings me so much to have that record, with all its silly joys and honest sorrows... all the words and feelings behind them that are still so very alive for me. Godspeed, Miles... even though we never spoke, thank you for letting me and so many of us know you. I learned about Miles through reading your posts here, and though it was a very rough story for me to follow (for me, obviously, for more reasons than one), and though it certainly doesn’t make this news any less wrenching to hear now… it makes me all the more grateful for him and all the lives he touched through the net. When Barry died, it amazed me how many of his friends and family came up to me telling me how grateful they were for the weblog and photo albums he left behind, a life we both lived together that we both kept a record of, that’s still here after he’s gone… and it’s a true blessing to live in an age where we have this wonderful tool where voices like Miles’ and Barry’s can be heard, and some small spark of their immensely bright lives still burning here in this form. There’s not one hour goes by where the grief is ever truly gone, I doubt there ever will be, but it still brings me so much to have that record, with all its silly joys and honest sorrows… all the words and feelings behind them that are still so very alive for me.

Godspeed, Miles… even though we never spoke, thank you for letting me and so many of us know you.

]]> By: Shannon http://geekhabitat.com/1041/godspeed-miles/#comment-18315 Shannon Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:22:55 +0000 http://geekhabitat.com/1041/godspeed-miles/#comment-18315 Thanks for being the watchful and apparently much-needed copy editor over my virtual shoulder, Rich. Fixed the link, although it will still require that folks have a valid CarePage login (free to obtain) and are logged in. Also, I got a reply subsequent to yours that seemed to confuse GeekHabitat as being a place to send thoughts and prayers to the Levin family. Do that by going to Miles' CarePage; I'm merely someone touched by Miles, his writings and life, and now his legacy. I don't have any connection to/with the family beyond that... they are part of my "virtual family" in the same way <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.babysamson.com/" rel="nofollow">Sammy and his family</a> are. Thanks for being the watchful and apparently much-needed copy editor over my virtual shoulder, Rich. Fixed the link, although it will still require that folks have a valid CarePage login (free to obtain) and are logged in.

Also, I got a reply subsequent to yours that seemed to confuse GeekHabitat as being a place to send thoughts and prayers to the Levin family. Do that by going to Miles’ CarePage; I’m merely someone touched by Miles, his writings and life, and now his legacy. I don’t have any connection to/with the family beyond that… they are part of my “virtual family” in the same way Sammy and his family are.

]]> By: RichC http://geekhabitat.com/1041/godspeed-miles/#comment-18305 RichC Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:46:03 +0000 http://geekhabitat.com/1041/godspeed-miles/#comment-18305 It does make you rethink each day ... and for me anyway, how I often waste it with being less than a positive influence to those I love and beyond. (double check your Carepage link) Also ... good all around article in the Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070819/UPDATE/708190354&imw=Y It does make you rethink each day … and for me anyway, how I often waste it with being less than a positive influence to those I love and beyond. (double check your Carepage link)

Also … good all around article in the Detroit News:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070819/UPDATE/708190354&imw=Y

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