Happy Mother's Day!

To all my friends who are mothers, Happy Mothers' Day! Have a wonderful day today.

To everyone for whom today is not an unequivocally happy day, may you be comforted.

NESFA Hymnal Sing in the Sky

I trust (and certainly hope) that this post won't come as a shock to anyone who reads it.

Lois Mangan died yesterday of complications of Parkinson's Disease. Her husband annonynous's post to filk is here, and thnidu wrote the most appropriate memorial, a nifty song about Lois.

I was thinking of what I could possibly write about this warm and wonderful woman, and then I saw autographedcat's comment that "Lois Mangan is pushing her way to the front of the Celestial choir and handing out NESFA hymnals to the heavenly host." Yeah, I couldn't've said it better. She is, she definetely is.

Thank you, Lois, for having been you. We will miss you, and we are surely infinitely blessed to have known you.