From:	Sorrell, Tracy
Sent:	Friday, March 19, 2004 11:56 AM
To:	Robinson, Peter; Shephard, Kana; All Staff & Faculty DL
Subject:	RE: Jacinta
No kidding, we were just joking around yesterday on how she needs to find her mom a husband! I miss her dearly
Tracy Sorrell
Building Services Lead
ext. 6317

-----Original Message-----
From:	Robinson, Peter 
Sent:	Friday, March 19, 2004 11:52 AM
To:	Shephard, Kana; All Staff & Faculty DL
Subject:	RE: Jacinta

I just can't believe it!  I don't know how to believe it.

I spoke with Jacinta a couple days ago. Actually, she spoke to me, as I walked by and tossed her a smile and a "hi" in my wake. She stopped me, and then said something deeply complimentary and gracious to me. Right out of the Blue. Stopped me in my tracks, pulled me back to her, and shared something we all need to hear, we all need to share with others, but do only infrequently. For Jacinta, it was a habit, a matter of how she had chosen to live each of her days.

I didn't understand why she had shared what she did, but I had determined to go over today and thank her, and let her know how much it meant.

And, instead, she's gone, and we'll grieve, and soon get back to the morning paper and gas prices and the coming election and the laundry, and life will carry on as normal, and I don't want it to carry on as normal. I want to come around a corner and see her smile lighting up the entire room.

Jacinta, Louise, Craig, Judy, Steve, the list is growing too too long.

Having people you care for die, just plain sucks.

Peter

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Shephard, Kana  
Sent:	Friday, March 19, 2004 9:36 AM
To:	All Staff & Faculty DL
Subject:	Jacinta

I think of community when I think of Jacinta.  

I would often see her at the Co-op because we'd always seem to pick similar days to pick up groceries.  She was never without a kind word nor that big, awesome smile that makes you want to reach out grab just a piece of that peace and contentment she seemed to exude.  I had also participated in some workshops she facilitated where I served on community boards and got to experience that side of Jacinta -- is there really a point in debating? how can we talk openly? -- that was a great success in community-building within those organizations.  Finally, at Evergreen.  She was always so kind to support staff; she spoke of a deep honoring of the secretaries in that building, and in her interactions with anybody on this campus -- in hiring committees, meetings, workshops, one-on-ones -- she behaved in a way that suggests that utopian ideals can begin with just one person.

I will truly miss her.

Daniel W. "Kana" Shephard
Academic Program Support, Lab 1 First Floor
The Evergreen State College
(360) 867-6600/(360) 867-5430 FAX
'A'ohe pau ka 'ike i ka halau ho'okani
All knowledge is not taught in the same school.
(One can learn from many sources.)