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| In memory of ex-lib |
| 2023-11-02 |
| Hi guys, Donβt know if any of you recall ex-lib, but she fought hard on the boards here (especially during the "Antiwar" troll times) β quite the firebrand. The past decade was a trip for us, and then she up and unexpectedly died last year. I wasn't able to pull it together enough to post something last year β I was and still am pretty gutted. Cliche, but she truly was my better half . . . I know ex-lib would appreciate your remembrances now. This is a bittersweet day for me β what would have been ex-lib's 66th birthday. This also is the jubilee of her accepting my marriage proposal. . . . I miss her terribly. Some reflections have been added here: https://www.forevermissed.com/cindy-lou-ingold Dear Rantburg, the very best to you and yours always. Godspeed, cingold |
| Posted by:cingold |
| #12 Thanks Deacon Blues. From 2007 to now has been chock full of crazy; so, posting turned to peeking . . . But, peek we would, and you and the others we peeked in on let us know that at least part of the world was still sane π You kept us grounded. My most somber and sincere condolences on your loss. I had no idea the heart could break so deeply as when "flesh of my flesh" is torn asunder. If I hadn't found Lewis' "A Grief Observed," I don't think I'd have made it this far. I'm much less than half the man I used to be. May God comfort us both π |
| Posted by: cingold 2023-11-02 15:28 |
| #11 Cingold, I have missed her's and your comments. You have my sympathies. I, too know the pain of losing a spouse. May God comfort you. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2023-11-02 13:50 |
| #10 Amen. As king David once said, "They ain't coming back at this point, but we're gonna join them soon enough." 2 Samuel 12:23 (the really bad paraphrase version). |
| Posted by: cingold 2023-11-02 10:35 |
| #9 Peanut Gallery, Pappy, etc al... Them all are missed and prayers go with them. |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2023-11-02 10:12 |
| #8 Hi Frank. Thanks. Dotcom, Zenster, etc., all missed. Glad to see Ex-Lib remembered. I wish I had a fraction of her ability to write. She once almost caused a riot at CSU with a short letter to the editor (writing under pseudonym, since he'd banned her, LOL). It took someone from the English Department to tamp things down by pointing out the "Modest Proposal" (Jonathan Swift) type rhetoric employed. She could make her points . . . |
| Posted by: cingold 2023-11-02 07:57 |
| #7 So many good posters are gone here. Thoughts are with you! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-11-02 07:15 |
| #6 Amen, Besoeker. Thanks for the reminder. Truly. βThe world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?β β Thomas Watson But, I'm a pig π· . . . I had forty years of her sweet company, and that was (for me) just an appetizer. No one could humble (or exalt) me like she could, and I'm pretty lost without her. Good thing she watches over and prays for me . . . as I need her help more than ever . . . I warned her that if she ever died before me, I'd haunt her the rest of MY life. Keepin' my word, LOL |
| Posted by: cingold 2023-11-02 05:59 |
| #5 This brief mortal period is simply basic training for eternity. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-11-02 05:28 |
| #4 Thanks Trailing Wife. She really loved you too, her battle-buddy. I'd love any of her writing on Rantburg you could send my way. I've been scouring her computer to savor her words, and need more of her sharp retorts, LOL. FYI, she got perma-banned on Twitter (@IngoldIsrael, after which she ran with @OfProtocols). I finally got @IngoldIsrael unbanned posthumously during the "Elon pardons." Post 10-7-2023, it was briefly resuspended (hey, I was just posting what I knew she would have π€£), but I relented and deleted the tweet . . . Re donations . . . she loved Rabbi Tuly Weisz, and he seems the mensch (https://www.israel365.com) and does good, practical things. Thank you for the blessings. I find great solace in the Almighty, Adonai melekh ha'olam of vengeance and mercy. Still, it is so much easier for me to assent to and say "Baruch Dayan ha'emet" than it is to actually live it out and truly mean it. Working on that. Our tragedies will, I think, only make sense from the vantage point of eternity, when the Almighty wipes the tears off every face, and removes the shame of His people. Yeshayahu 25:8. His ways and thoughts are beyond our present comprehension. Yeshayahu 55:8-9. Shalom, Chris |
| Posted by: cingold 2023-11-02 04:38 |
| #3 Iβm so sorry, cingold. I adored ex-lib, and always read her comments carefully. Is there somewhere we could donate to in her memory, if anyone is so moved? I did a quick search of the internet, and among the dross found this gold nugget from 2005: #7 Hey .com, does this Islamo-bumble shoot down the "highly educated" theory of AzCat, who dissed my assertion (on Monday) that some of these guys are just uneducated idiots played by the higher-ups? Or is this as good as "highly educated" suicide bombers get? Wonder what you think. BTW, wasn't playing the "pity card" on the Islamofacists, just remembering all the reports of young, uneducated dumb-asses being set up, and of even educated dumb-asses being set up to suicide bomb unknowingly, by their "superiors." Posted by ex-lib 2005-07-21 21:51|| There is lots more, if only I knew how to search comments β when one of our clever programming types tells us what to do, it will be our small gift in return for the reflections you share in your link. As the Jews say: May the All-Merciful One shelter ex-lib with the cover of His wings forever, and bind her soul in the bond of life. The Lord is her heritage; may she rest in her resting-place in peace. May her memory be a blessing. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-11-02 04:08 |
| #2 Thanks, Fred. It's been a trip. Didn't have her dying so soon on my life's dance card. Still, she'd be freaking out about right now, given the world's slow motion train wreck, which she had noticed headed this way long before me . . . They say God sometimes takes people to spare them π€ Better me dealing with the temporal parting, rather than her. She paid her dues. Please know she adored you and this site. I know her posting dried up after the baby came in 2007, but she was ever peeking in as she could. All the best to you and yours |
| Posted by: cingold 2023-11-02 03:58 |
| #1 I miss her. She was very smart, very witty, a very fine lady. We can only mourn with you. |
| Posted by: Fred 2023-11-02 03:40 |