Today Cathy would have turned 46 1/2. Yes, she was one of the few people around who celebrated their Half Birthday, if only to give everyone six months notice that her real birthday was coming up.
We are also thinking about Cathy today as the Toronto International Film Festival begins tonight. That these two momentous ocassions are colliding on the same date would have been a great delight to her.
TIFF was clearly one of her most favourite times of the year. A lot of us have great memories of attending films with her, or just stalking...er...hanging out in Yorkville hoping to catch a glimpse of one of her favourite celebrities.
If anyone goes to TIFF this year, let's leave an extra seat for Cathy.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thank You
Thank you to everyone who participated in and contributed to last evening's memorial. The general consensus is that it is just what Catherine would have wanted. We will be posting photos from the event next week to the blog. In the meantime, many have asked about the closing poem. I have posted it below:
Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner.
All is well.
- Henry Scott Holland
Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner.
All is well.
- Henry Scott Holland
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Remembering Catherine: A Celebration
Details are now confirmed for the AGO memorial for Catherine. The event will take place on Thursday, July 22 at 6 p.m. in the Galleria Italia at the Art Gallery of Ontario. There will be music, some of Catherine's artwork, and the sharing of happy memories of our dear friend. Those attending just need to show up at the main entrance to the AGO, and you will be escorted to the Galleria.
Following the memorial, a reception will be held at the AGO's FRANK restaurant, at approximately 7 p.m.
The invite is posted above. Please RSVP to friendsofcatherine@rogers.com by July 20.
If you would like to forward the invite to anyone you know who might be interested in attending, please let me know at scott.henderson@rogers.com and I will send it to you as an attachment.
Additionally, we will be reading out anecdotes and memories from Catherine's friends and co-workers that have been posted to this blog and elsewhere. If you have a memory to share, please post it here and we will try to include as many as possible.
Following the memorial, a reception will be held at the AGO's FRANK restaurant, at approximately 7 p.m.
The invite is posted above. Please RSVP to friendsofcatherine@rogers.com by July 20.
If you would like to forward the invite to anyone you know who might be interested in attending, please let me know at scott.henderson@rogers.com and I will send it to you as an attachment.
Additionally, we will be reading out anecdotes and memories from Catherine's friends and co-workers that have been posted to this blog and elsewhere. If you have a memory to share, please post it here and we will try to include as many as possible.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Looking For Your Memories...
Hi Friends of Catherine
As you know, planning for our arts and culture style memorial are starting to come together for July 22nd (thanks Scott!!). We will have our DVD photo tribute of Catherine's life on display once again. I would like to add your favourite photos of Catherine as I know there are parts of her life that I did not capture. I would especially like to include more photos of CC and her art and her time in Kingston. If you have any photos that you would like me to include, please email to bkubilius@acanac.net
Thanks, Barb
Friday, June 18, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
AGO Memorial This July
It's been one week since Catherine's passing. And as each day goes by, it doesn't get any easier. It is still uncomprehensible that we will never hear CC's raucous laugh again, that we will never hear the clang of her bangles, that we will never see her mischievous smile, that we will never marvel at her make up, that we will never witness her fiery passion....ever, again.
This blog has been a cource of comfort, not only to CC's family, friends and co-workers, but to CC herself. In her last weeks when she wasn't up for communication, she would visit the blog on her iPod from her hospital bed. And in the days following her passing, literally hundreds of people visited the site, catching up with CC's story, re-connecting with shared friends from her past.
And so on this one week anniversary, the moderators of this blog would like to thank everyone for visiting and posting their comments and for sharing in Catherine's life as it came to an end.
We would also like to announce that a memorial tribute to Catherine at the AGO is being planned for this July. This will be a time for CC's friends, family and co-workers to come together and pay tribute to her in the building and institution in which she took such enormous pride. We are also hoping to exhibit some of her art at the event, and we can take comfort knowing that she would have loved having her artwork exhibited at the AGO!
The blog will continue to be updated as details are confirmed for the event. We encourage you to "stay tuned" until then.
On behalf of Catherine's famly and friends, thank you.
This blog has been a cource of comfort, not only to CC's family, friends and co-workers, but to CC herself. In her last weeks when she wasn't up for communication, she would visit the blog on her iPod from her hospital bed. And in the days following her passing, literally hundreds of people visited the site, catching up with CC's story, re-connecting with shared friends from her past.
And so on this one week anniversary, the moderators of this blog would like to thank everyone for visiting and posting their comments and for sharing in Catherine's life as it came to an end.
We would also like to announce that a memorial tribute to Catherine at the AGO is being planned for this July. This will be a time for CC's friends, family and co-workers to come together and pay tribute to her in the building and institution in which she took such enormous pride. We are also hoping to exhibit some of her art at the event, and we can take comfort knowing that she would have loved having her artwork exhibited at the AGO!
The blog will continue to be updated as details are confirmed for the event. We encourage you to "stay tuned" until then.
On behalf of Catherine's famly and friends, thank you.
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