[Mid] TRHs devices (short); notes on Jafar's passing

Unto the Readers of the Middlebridge, greetings.

After catching up on 200+ messages, I am simply overwhelmed by the
level of grief and remembered joy at the passing of my Pelican lord.
I have only a few brief things to mention and remind.

First and foremost, THANK YOU!!! The cards, emails, letters, flowers,
and visits by all who had the time and ability has supported HRH Kenna
far more than you could imagine. That support has encouraged and
ennobled those of us closest to Jafar in an equally remarkable fashion.
I wish you all had had the chance to know him as well as I, and I wish
I had known him e'en better than I did.

I am aware of some curiosity and need for the blazoning of the devices
of TRHs. I am equally aware of the glut of opinions regarding the
specifics of the same. If you are in need of either device please email
me and I will respond as quickly as I can -- usually the same day. The
devices are all but common knowledge (I posted them on Wednesday last
week), but I don't want to bog down our Middlebridge with any more
"you said" / "but you said". In good time HRH will sit and decide upon
the formal submission of Her device. We'll worry about a definition for
'in good time' later.

durr al-jabal al-mukhfi wrote:
>In token of respect, I think of my late friend as,
>
>jafar al-safa, nur al-Hakiim (the light of honor)
   Thank you, this is his Name as I shall forever remember in my heart,
   even when I fail to speak it with my lips.

Thorhild Sigurdsdottir wrote:
>My question is: Would any of you be offended or hurt if I wore
>an armband at Estrella War and other events for the next couple of
>months in his memory?
   Doing so would be wonderful. As would the wearing of a lizard in some
   fashion upon your garb. Not sure yet which is The One True Method Of
   Showing Respect (we don't need to turn this into a "follow the gourd"
   scene) but rest assure that anything you feel is a sign of respect
   would be something Jafar would appreciate. Scott was always a man who
   understood what was meant, not what was said or done.

Heather of Shadowed Stars wrote:
>You know how, when a procession goes by, you can tell
>if someone was popular or important by how long the procession is? If
>it's big enough, you start wondering if the deceased was somebody famous
>or *really* important?
   <giggle> When Scott first went into the hospital, the staff was
   amazed at the number of different people who kept coming in to visit
   with him and those keeping vigil. They kept asking whether he was a
   rock star or something. It didn't help matters that there exists a
   professional wrestler named Scott Hall.
>Jafar would have been really tickled to know that he was able to
>stop that much traffic!
   That and the fact that he planted all us "white folk" smack in the
   middle of an AME funeral. You just know he was smirking over the umm's
   and er's most of us dealt with. My Lutheran upbringing just isn't
   used to speaking in church unless it's printed in the bulletin.

Lady Saradwen Ariandalen, you were curious about the medical/scientific
aspects of "what the heck happened". If you have not been flooded with
answers yet, I can fill you in (mundane life, grad student in medicinal
chemistry). If there is enough curiosity, I may post it to the 'bridge
at large.

This became somewhat larger than I'd intended. Oopsie. I wish I could
thank each of you individually for your words on what Scott meant to you
and what you've taken home from his funeral. But all of your words matter,
are read, and are remembered.

Thank you, adam comyn
        protegee to Jafar, squire to Palymar,
        without a free weekend till September
From: Adam Zabell <zabell@stanley.bio.purdue.edu>
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Received on Mon Jan 5 15:07:45 1998