I still can't wrap my head around it

[ckd]

I can't. I just can't. Hours since I first heard the news, and I still can't.

filkergem, who I first met almost 20 years ago, is gone, killed in a house fire that completely destroyed the house.

Please give Greg, his wife Maya (kyttn), stepdaughter Faeryn (lovensong87), brother Scott (smcmullan), and his other family and friends whatever prayers, thoughts, and/or energy you can spare, in whatever tradition you practice.

Comments

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

It's so awful..... :~(

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. *hugs* to you, and his family is in my thoughts.

[siderea]

I am so sorry. What a terrible tragedy.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

Oh geeze, I am so sorry for your loss.

[slobbit.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. I didn't know him, but he seems to have been well-loved indeed.

[mdyesowitch.livejournal.com]

He was very much worthy of it, and it is not a 10th of what he deserved from us.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

When I saw Dave's post asking for memories of Greg, I paused, thought it must be some other Greg, some older fan I didn't know, and went on reading LJ.


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[fairoriana.livejournal.com]

Grey was actually a member of my church for years, and was the webmaster there before me (http://burlingtonpres.org). He only overlapped briefly with my tenure, but remained close friends with much of the congregation. We were always kept abreast of his life. I had no idea we had that in common. Our church was stunned into grief yesterday morning by the news.

[ckd]

I also had no idea that we both knew Greg.

I knew him through IRC, and alt.callahans, and fandom-in-general. Others knew him through filking, MIT (APO, SIPB, or just generally being around), church, or something else.

Yet in every one of these social circles, he's remembered the same way. He was always the same Greg, there with a laugh and a smile or a hug and a hand, whichever you needed; ready to do what needed doing, but never seeking attention—even avoiding it; making us all better people by his quiet example.

[yendi]

Wow. I only knew him as a name that popped up occasionally on LJs of folks I knew. I just saw the posts in your and persis's LJs, and I'm amazed. His family and friends are in my thoughts.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh, oh how horrible. Yes, all energies to them.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I am sorry for your loss, and the loss this obviously is to all his family and friends.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry for your loss.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry you've lost a friend and that his family must bear this tragedy.

K.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. What an awful thing to have happen.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

This is terrible. I'm so sorry. May you and his family and other friends find comfort in your grief.

[ookpik.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry.

I never met Greg; from reading the various LJs, I get a sense of the magnitude of your loss. You and all his family and friends are in my thoughts and prayers.