It's an odd thing this blogging. You make connections with some people, with others you just feel involved in their lives because you read about them daily, others may be involved in your life without you knowing it. And so it's a confusing emotion when a blogger whose work you always read is no longer going to be there. I loved reading Elspeth Thompson's blog. It took my breath away to have her husband Frank's post announcing her death appear in my reader. And yet we'd never met, I'd never even commented on her blog despite reading it so avidly. Any death is hard to categorise emotionally, but it's even harder when you feel grief but also that you have no right to that grief. It's all so very strange. Because part of blogging makes you feel so much closer to people around the world, and then another part of it makes you feel so very far away.
Elspeth Thompson's obituary in the Telegraph.
She will no doubt be missed by those who knew her, but she will also be missed by those like me, who didn't.
thanks for posting about this. have obviously discovered her too late - love her style. so sad - have been wondering all day about sucess and happiness and suicide since reading about her. our brains are such tricky things...
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