Our dreadfully missed friend, Cathy Seipp, would have celebrated her birthday this past Saturday. Cathy’s daughter, Maia, wrote a poignant poem to mark the occasion.
Sometimes, friends and I will exchange emails – quite out of the blue – about how much we miss Cathy. So many news stories break and I think, “I GOTTA hear what Cathy has to say about this!” (Above, me with Nancy Rommelmann and Cathy in Cathy’s cozy living room in Silverlake, March 2005.)
I am going to Los Angeles later today. The last time I was there was in February, a few weeks before Cathy died. I had gone there for the express purpose of spending time with her; I planned to cook and bake and do what I could to make her more comfortable. Before my visit, I was full of apprehension that I would do something to increase her pain, her annoyance, her sadness.
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