This morning I cried a little for a noder I never knew. Who passed away four long years ago. I felt an echo of the suffering - his suffering, his friends' suffering, his family's...

That was then, and this is now.

His w/us are still here. His homenode. All the love. The helplessness. Makes it very, very real and now. Brings back fears of my own. Makes me remember nights and days of fuck you if you do it...

We made it through. My world is still intact. I count every day as a blessing.

I never knew him, but /me misses Hermetic