Due to total cliche reasons about the world becoming more of a technological society, the people that we e-meet and correspond with online are just as much of a part of our lives than the people that we actually know and sometimes do not even see that often. I'd venture to say that I have stronger bonds with some people with which I do not or can not spend a lot of face time, as opposed to people I went to school with and spent hours upon hours of sharing physical space. I do not think that this speaks to the fact that we are becoming isolationists, I just think that the way that we socially interact has changed.
Today, I discovered that one of the women that authored a frequently-visited food blog passed away suddenly. I felt no less sympathy and sadness than if I had learned a friend had passed. I re-visited her blog and saw this following passage, as written by her husband:
Many of the regular visitors to What Did You Eat? have already heard the tragic news that this site's creator, Sherry Cermak, died on July 20, 2008 of a sudden heart attack. Sherry was part of two wonderful blogging communities. The food bloggers, which was the main topic of What Did You Eat?, and the cat bloggers where she posted updates on the lives of her cats and rescued wildlife (squirrels) on WCB. Sherry shared parts of her personal life on her blog, most recently her anemia and what she was cooking and eating to improve her blood count. She had started a new blog "My Battle with Anemia", but died before she could make the initial posting.
As a fellow anemic this was difficult to read, but to visit her blog and see her entries just days earlier filled with the enthusiasm of beating her illness and trying to craft her recipes around her deficiency was heartbreaking and inspiring.
Tonight, I will be making one of her recipes in her honor. Hopefully Sherry was aware of how many strangers and e-friends she had in her life before it was taken from her.
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