I was playing around with some of my recent photos this wonderful Saturday morning - straightening and running enhance and adjusting photos and having a good time. And then my eyes wandered over to the Source column on the left and I saw a smart album for my recently deceased close friend, Kate.
This picture was taken many years ago when she and I were on a trip to Hawaii. Kate was (using the past tense is difficult) a brilliant, creative and sensitive woman. One of my dearest friends ever. We kept in close touch even though she moved away from the Bay Area to Taos, New Mexico several years ago.
Kate died in her sleep from a heart attack on December 20, 2004. I want to do a whole website memorial on her using some tool I haven't chosen yet. I planned to do it much sooner, but its taken some time and distance to bring myself to the task.
I'm hoping that friends of Kate will find this post and correspond with me about her.
I've seen an even better photo but this one from 2002-2004 or so will give you a photo nearer to the end:
I just added this photo today (Aug 13, 2018 -- sorry for the delay). I ran across a song that she had on CD at her place: Here Without You by 3 Doors Down. A good tear jerker that had me in tears remembering Kate how she might have felt while listening to this song. If you ever met her, you would remember her.
One more thing that isn't covered above - lots of things aren't covered above. Kate was a Navy Brat. Her Dad (I believe his name was Stanley Norman) was in the Navy in some kind of engineering capacity I think - smart, of course. Kate grew up in many places including Asia, Alaska and San Francisco and her later teen years were spent in Morgan Hill, CA where she graduated from High School. If you remember a Kathy Norman and were attending high school in Morgan Hill, remember her for me. Contact me if you knew her well. You'll find my contact info on tokerud.com. OK. I see I need to write more about my awesome friend. See you then.