Sandra, sayang

I want to get real with you for a moment.

Sometimes life outside SL seeps through the cracks of this place, and today I want to make a little room for it.

Since I moved back home last year, one of the things I picked up again was Second Life. Just a bit, I thought. We all know how that went.

Another was volunteering. Each week, I try to spend some time at a hospice, helping wherever I can. Mostly, though, we talk. About all sorts of things. Sometimes the conversation turns to hobbies, and someone asks how I spend my free time. A few times, that’s led to me telling people about Second Life, perhaps showing it to them, or sharing some stories and photos from this blog.

With Sandra, it went a little further. We enjoyed dressing up an alt I hadn’t used in years. Choosing clothes and putting outfits together was something she could no longer do for herself in real life, but here she could. She read this blog, and every week we’d have a laugh when she asked what I’d gotten myself into this time.

This weekend, I learned that she had passed away.

I’ve found this harder to write than anything I make up for this blog. But she became a small part of this world of mine, and I wanted to make room for her here too. This is where I keep my images, my memories, and the words that matter to me. So today, I wanted to use a few of those words to say goodbye.

Sampai jumpa, Sandra sayang!