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[kjackson83]

A few weeks ago, one of Libera's most active fans on YouTube passed away--she was a Canadian highschooler. Her handle was famous among the Libera fans on YT: iLuvTomCully. Another of our number (YT handle Libera36...and I think they joined us here not too long ago) created a brief video in her memory, using Going Home as the track.

I wanted to share this because it felt appropriate and because something I personally feel that is remarkable about the Libera fanbase vs. everyone else's, is that feeling of closeness and friendship that seems to pervade wherever we gather up online.

The video can be viewed here.

[Anonymous]

I had no idea she had passed. I knew that she was hospitalized but I did not know that she was really that ill. May she rest in peace while she looks down upon us from above. She suffers no more as she walks through the valley of eternal life.


"Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glint on snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain
I am the gentle, gentle autumn rain

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep
When you awake in the morning hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight
I am the soft, soft starlight, starlight at night

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep"

[libera36]

Thank you for putting this up Kelsie! Kelley was a wonderful person and I hope that my tribute was appropriate... ~Libera36 (also known as Libera36 on YouTube)

[Anonymous]

It very much was and thank you for creating it and putting it up.

[libera36]

You're welcome!

[TEB]

Carry me away,
From the dark I fear,
When the storm is near,
From the endless night,

To a sky of light.

Free me to fly away.
Salve me.

In Memory.

[kjackson83]

Thank you for putting this up Kelsie! Kelley was a wonderful person and I hope that my tribute was appropriate... ~Libera36 (also known as Libera36 on YouTube)

Absolutely. Several folk around here have talked about us being one "family," and Kelley was certainly a part of that family.

Come, Death, you our honored guest.
Enter into the chamber of our hearts,
Take from us the pain and woe of life,
And lead us to peaceful rest from all sorrows
--Viktor Ullman: Komm, Tod

Memento etiam, Domine, famulorum famularumque tuarum Kelley, qui nos praecesserunt cum signo fidei et dormiunt in somno pacis.

[tcliffy]

This news is deeply shocking and upsetting. Although we did not know each other personally, I had spoken with her before. I regret her loss, but pray for her family and friends.


If I had wings of a dove,
far, far away
would I fly
and hide away
to be at rest

[Jude Andrew]

A few weeks ago, one of Libera's most active fans on YouTube passed away--she was a Canadian highschooler. Her handle was famous among the Libera fans on YT: iLuvTomCully.

That is deeply sad and quite distressing considering how young she was.

She will be in our prayers tonight.