Shock

Just received a message that one of my old college friends from Goucher passed away this week. She was always, always, far larger than life -- one of those energy filled people that took over an entire room -- and I cannot take this in, cannot grasp the concept that her life has ended. She's the sort of person far, far, too alive to die; she was far, far too young, and she had too much to share with the world.