There's something very poetic about this piece. It's just so peaceful and serene. And I dig how invincible Saara is. Having her in an inhospitable climate, frozen into the ice like that...just a beautiful pose of someone soon to be a statue, at least until she easily breaks free.

R.I.P. Greg. He was a kind and fun guy.

Eek! When did this happen?

Very sorry to say: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35384102/

I guess that's as much information as I'm likely to get. I knew he was ill and I think I was aware it was cancer ... but it was rather remote, and he didn't give me an impression of urgency. I probably last emailed around the New Year or slightly later. It is hard to remember such occasional events.

I sent him a Happy New Year e-mail, and his friendly reply seemed to indicate optimism, but perhaps he was -- perhaps all of us were -- hoping against hope.

My memories of him are relatively few, but very fond. I know the 2 of you used to go to a lot of cons. Sorry I had to break such terrible news.

I'm already sick (metaphorically, not virally) of 2020. You please take care of yourself.

It hasn't been a good 12 months, though it wasn't all bad. So far this year I've actually getting more then the usual good luck -- its just a matter of how the ongoing disaster of COVid 19 treats us. I remember that Greg really liked cons and how he was my unofficial rep at the dealer's table. When I got tired of sitting in one place, and wanted to wander the dealers room, he seemed to get a real kick out of it. But the economics became unpromising, and the border was slowly growing tougher, so I stopped going to cons. Greg seemed able to do cons sometimes, at least ... but I guess he was just a "civilian" then. But I had the impression that he wasn't able to do as many cons as before. Then he lost his job for a while, as I recall. He had to move from that spacious (if a little rundown) place, with much less space. We stayed in touch infrequently, but is was always a pleasure to hear from Greg. By gawd, though ... I'm losing people I know at a rate that it three or four a year.