Farewell to a friend...

"And at night you will look up at the stars. My star will be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens...they will all be yours. And when your sorrow is comforted, you will be content that you have known me."

I am very glad that I have known you...thank you for everything...for every act of kindness, for every meal we shared together, for every inspirational discussion about linguistics that we had, for offering me some kind of home during my first weeks in Lyon and for always keeping your doors open for me...

Sleep tight and God bless you...adieu...

For Martina...

I'm re-posting this for a friend of mine, Martina, who is losing her battle with cancer...my thoughts are with her family, her husband, her two daughters and with her...

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, as to put to rout all that was not life, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

[Henry David Thoreau, Walden]


God bless...