Although I wrote this eulogy when I first heard, I didn’t want to post it. I felt guilty of neglect.
In his memory I have created a new community way email conference cc-cw@egroups.com because he won’t be there to deal with the emails that bounce on his list cw@inode.org.
November 9, 1999
I miss his emails already.
Terry was an activist - he did, he acted - moved by his sense of justice and what he saw around him...what he felt for the victims of the corporate juggernaut.
He was one of the few people who understood how conventional money works to enslave us, destroy civil society, and consume the earth. He was a quick learner - he listened, asked questions, wrote what he understood, asked for critique, and changed/adapted accordingly.
He acted as an agent, independent but connected, inter-acting (interactivist?), working in collaboration, chaordically.
The November storm lashes our house in Cumberland as I write this eulogy for Terry listening to Miles play the blues. I cry for Terry, my loss, our loss.
I lament the lost opportunities to talk to him, to support his work, to care enough to answer his last email (Quitting Activism), with some encouragement, a few kind words if only to let him know he wasn’t alone.
But I didn’t.
I put it off - the excuses are many, but when it comes right down to it, I didn’t tap out a few kind words. I thought them but I didn’t write them. Something else Terry was good at.
Terry, I wanted to tell you, “Good for you, take a break, come back when you feel rested and stronger.” He would have known that he wasn’t alone.
I wont’ make that mistake again.
in solid ernie yacub yacinfo@mars.ark.com