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shaunacarrickA Dear friend of many years died yesterday, from respiratory complications following a second round of treatment for breast cancer.
So many memories.
Years ago, I was the office manager for a security company in town. I hired a lot of SCA folks for short and long term security guard positions. Sometimes we would get a contract from any number of different insurance companies to watch over property that had been damaged by fire or other disaster until it could be investigated and cleaned up. This would mean a lot of overnight shifts in addition to the regular postings and the need to hire folks quickly. Thea was one of my hires for that sort of thing. This also meant, to a certain extent, I could work the schedule around for folks to attend events. Not always, but sometimes.
The summer of 1996 she and I actually took vacation, and Thea and I drove in her car (mine would not have made the trip!) to Vancouver, Washington, to attend 30 Year Celebration. It was a grand time driving there, attending all 10 days of the event and then driving home. We talked and talked and talked and I got to know her even better than I had before. Road tripping with her was so much fun!
Later on that summer, I got a surprise invite to Loch Salann for a specific event. Managed to get a ride there, and was elevated to the Order of the Pelican (Very Much to my surprise!). This was when we were still a Principality, but Kingdom was on the horizon. Some time after I got home, I ended up working shifts with Thea on a business site that had been the scene of a fire. We talked even more then. I ended up offering her a yellow belt, just a few months after my elevation. She accepted. We both cried a lot, but I was very happy she thought I could teach her anything – I learned even more from her!
She ended up getting engaged to Tabor (Bjarki) and moving to Sentinels’ Keep (Missoula) a couple of years after that (more or less, the exact dates escape me) and she gave me the belt back as she didn’t feel she could sustain a long-distance relationship. The Powers That Be recognized her beauty, strength and service to all even without her being in an official relationship with me. I have always been honored she shared even a little bit of her personal journey with me, both in the SCA and in life.
I will never forget her.
Shauna of Carrick Point
So many memories.
Years ago, I was the office manager for a security company in town. I hired a lot of SCA folks for short and long term security guard positions. Sometimes we would get a contract from any number of different insurance companies to watch over property that had been damaged by fire or other disaster until it could be investigated and cleaned up. This would mean a lot of overnight shifts in addition to the regular postings and the need to hire folks quickly. Thea was one of my hires for that sort of thing. This also meant, to a certain extent, I could work the schedule around for folks to attend events. Not always, but sometimes.
The summer of 1996 she and I actually took vacation, and Thea and I drove in her car (mine would not have made the trip!) to Vancouver, Washington, to attend 30 Year Celebration. It was a grand time driving there, attending all 10 days of the event and then driving home. We talked and talked and talked and I got to know her even better than I had before. Road tripping with her was so much fun!
Later on that summer, I got a surprise invite to Loch Salann for a specific event. Managed to get a ride there, and was elevated to the Order of the Pelican (Very Much to my surprise!). This was when we were still a Principality, but Kingdom was on the horizon. Some time after I got home, I ended up working shifts with Thea on a business site that had been the scene of a fire. We talked even more then. I ended up offering her a yellow belt, just a few months after my elevation. She accepted. We both cried a lot, but I was very happy she thought I could teach her anything – I learned even more from her!
She ended up getting engaged to Tabor (Bjarki) and moving to Sentinels’ Keep (Missoula) a couple of years after that (more or less, the exact dates escape me) and she gave me the belt back as she didn’t feel she could sustain a long-distance relationship. The Powers That Be recognized her beauty, strength and service to all even without her being in an official relationship with me. I have always been honored she shared even a little bit of her personal journey with me, both in the SCA and in life.
I will never forget her.
Shauna of Carrick Point
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Date: 2019-09-01 08:39 am (UTC)I hope that you and everyone who cared about her finds joy in memories of time with her to counterbalance the sorrow at her passing.
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Date: 2019-09-02 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-09 03:10 am (UTC)