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Rest in peace, my beautiful friend

I’m forever grateful for the warmth and light L.K. Madigan shared with me, and for the beautiful stories she gave the world.  And while I’m heartbroken about Lisa’s passing, I’m glad for the life-affirming Book of Love we put together on her behalf. In revisiting everyone’s words and images, I’m finding peace–and also, joy.

This slideshow contains some of the myriad expressions of love we’ve included in Lisa’s album. Individually, these images represent our connections to Lisa; together, they depict the bond of friendship we all share. I invite you to browse them at your leisure, in hopes you’ll find some measure of comfort herein–and perhaps (re)discover a few reasons to celebrate, as well.   

Rest assured, everyone’s submissions were included in Lisa’s album, even if Photobucket wouldn’t allow me to upload all the pages for this slideshow.


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Love, as seen through Lisa’s lens

What do you do, when your hands and feet seem useless?

What do you say, when your words seem hollow and meaningless?

I’m not sure, but after [info]lkmadigan posted her hard news, I feel certain that many of us are asking ourselves these same questions.

So…we’re hatching a plan!

Lisa loves photography, as evidenced by her award-winning novel, FLASH BURNOUT. Moreover, she’s forever encouraging us to view the world through different lenses. So it seems somehow fitting that we compile an album of her friends’ photographs–pictures that symbolize all the ways our lives have been touched by Lisa. And of course, there will be room for your quotations, musings, poems, and illustrations.

Would you like to contribute? Please be thinking about this over the weekend!  I’ll post the particulars as soon as I can, and will ask you to cross-post them to Facebook, Twitter, etc. Lisa’s influence is far-reaching, so we’ll want this project to reflect a wider audience.

Back in a flash–or as soon as we’ve got the details finalized! 
xoxo

UPDATE: Here’s the link to the project details and (short) timeline:
http://newport2newport.livejournal.com/268635.html
Please feel free to cross-post it via your blog, Facebook page, or Twitter. But don’t combine Lisa’s name with the @ symbol…we’d like this to be a surprise, and don’t want it to end up on her FB/Twitter page. 🙂