From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #3474 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, August 3 2023 Volume 16 : Number 3474 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: * Our Golden Years * [Paul Blair ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 21:20:22 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: Fwd: * Our Golden Years * Some here may remember Rachel Loshak from back in the day. She'll be at Symphony Space in New York City on Sept. 9. The occasion is explained below; it's sad news. - ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rachel Loshak Date: Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 11:16b/AM Subject: * Our Golden Years * Dear Friends and Supporters, I have not been in touch for a while, for that I apologize. The global pandemic left me staying close to home, enjoying the time with my family as we all navigated the strange world around us. I was fully occupied with my family and my teaching. Although there was lots of music around me and from me, it was directed to other corners than the one I sit in to play my bass and sing my own songs. Sadly, as the world continued to grapple with all that, it finally came to our family in disastrous manner, without us even realizing it at the time. Morgan and I both got COVID for the first time while visiting my family in England last summer. We recovered in time to travel back to the U.S., where I fell ill again with Strep Throat. A week or so later, Morgan fell ill with a fever. The next day he was admitted to the hospital. The following day he was on life support, critically sick with Strep A Toxic Septic Shock Syndrome. He passed away 10 days later. The doctors deduced that COVID had damaged his immunity, and that the Strep A that my tonsils had effectively fought off, snuck in past his damaged immune system and wreaked havoc in his strong body. Our family is changed, irrevocably. I asked our 12 year old a few weeks ago how he was doing, and how he was thinking of Daddy. He told me that he thinks about him all the time, but remembering all the good times, not feeling sad. We have SO many good times to remember. We are lucky in that way. We had many golden years together that I will always be grateful for. One way that we remember Morgan at home is through his unique animated-illustrated creation, Gustafer Yellowgold . We will be celebrating Morgan and Gustafer at Symphony Space in NYC on Saturday, September 9th with some incredible musicians and artists. The concert will also be celebrating the release of the new yellow-vinyl-double-album bBest of Gustafer Yellowgold b. While working on all these projects to remember Morgan, I've also found some time to remember who I am. I have spent some summer days in the straw bale studio with Dean Jones, recording songs that I've written over the last 7 years or so. I had intended on recording them with Morgan, but I am finding that what is coming from me now is something that I could not have imagined before. Sometime soon, these songs will be ready to share. I'll be in touch again when they are. In the meantime, I would love to pack the seats at Symphony Space on September 9th to honor and celebrate my handsome, creative, loving, hilarious, much-loved, and so sorely missed husband. Please join me there if you can, and tell friends about it if you can't. With love and gratitude, Rachel Loshak Edit profile Unsubscribe View in browser ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #3474 ****************************