R.I.P Jordin Kare
2017-07-20 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearJordin Kare died yesterday, from complications of aortic valve replacement surgery. I am still somewhat in shock. He was younger than Colleen.
There is not much to be grateful for on this Thursday, but I am profoundly
grateful for Jordin's music, which has been part of my life's soundtrack
since at least the early 1980s. He was one of the founders of Off Centaur
Publications, publishers of the Westerfilk songbooks and many fine filk
tapes. (Jordin did the typesetting for Westerfilk I using
troff, which led to a number of typos involving single
quotes, which troff treats specially if they're the first character in a
line.)
Last night Naomi and I sang a few of his songs -- "Fire In the Sky", "The Designer" and "The Engineer", "Waverider", and all I could remember of "Kantrowitz 1972". It wasn't until this morning that I found the lyrics for that and "Sail for Amber", Colleen's favorite.
I just ...
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Date: 2017-07-20 07:03 pm (UTC)In recent years, I saw Jordin only rarely when we happened to be at the same conventions, just to say hi and chat for a minute or two. He was always kind to me. You're not the only one in shock today. My heart is broken.
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Date: 2017-07-20 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-20 07:43 pm (UTC)He will be greatly missed.
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Date: 2017-07-20 11:49 pm (UTC)It is a sad loss for all of us. Let us hold him and Colleen in our hearts, and may his memory always be a blessing.
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Date: 2017-07-21 02:33 am (UTC)(I only knew his name, and some of his songs, but I'm pretty sure he's where he always wanted to be... after all, he left on Landing Day...)
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Date: 2017-07-21 03:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-21 04:42 am (UTC)...yeah, that.
*hugs*
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