markwayne (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} markwayne) wrote,@ 2007-02-01 07:59:00 |
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Molly Ivins has died
I am sobbing in great shudders of mind-blanking grief as I grapple with Molly's passing. I never met her, never even saw a good picture of her until today. And yet I feel like we've lost one of my closest family members. We're not supposed to feel this way about some distant, faceless journalist. But her wit, compassion, and love for her readers just brings it out of you.
As a -- mainly -- secular individual, I'll confess that Molly's weekly column in our local free paper here in Norfolk, Virginia had become something of a religious ritual whose purpose was completely selfish -- time I guarded greedily. The ritual's effect was the restoration of my often waning ability to cope with and assimilate the grand farce and the abysmal tragedy that is American political life. The grief surges in me with the thought that this ritual now will be forever broken.
We will all, admirers, detractors, and turkeys miss her and be greatly impoverished in her untimely absence.
Sincerely,
Mark Wayne
I am sobbing in great shudders of mind-blanking grief as I grapple with Molly's passing. I never met her, never even saw a good picture of her until today. And yet I feel like we've lost one of my closest family members. We're not supposed to feel this way about some distant, faceless journalist. But her wit, compassion, and love for her readers just brings it out of you.
As a -- mainly -- secular individual, I'll confess that Molly's weekly column in our local free paper here in Norfolk, Virginia had become something of a religious ritual whose purpose was completely selfish -- time I guarded greedily. The ritual's effect was the restoration of my often waning ability to cope with and assimilate the grand farce and the abysmal tragedy that is American political life. The grief surges in me with the thought that this ritual now will be forever broken.
We will all, admirers, detractors, and turkeys miss her and be greatly impoverished in her untimely absence.
Sincerely,
Mark Wayne
