It's hard for me to express my sadness
and shock at the news of
Bunker's death.
It was past midnight last night when I visited his blog and found out.
I wanted to respond immediately, but was too confused and overcome with
emotion to do so. Never have I felt more strongly the adage that you
don't know what you have till it's gone.
I visited Bunker's blog almost every day for more than a year, and he
visited mine. We almost never communicated directly, even by email or
comment. Yet we linked to each other, and inspired each other - at
least he me. Though I know from my statistics that I have quite a few
readers, I don't get feedback from many, and on certain topics that I
consider some of the most important, I get even less. Bunker was one of
the few who seemed to get the message.
For all that, the medium of the Internet is so incorporeal
that my cyber-relationships have a dreamlike quality to them. I don't
fully believe that they are real. Last night, when I learned of
Bunker's death, I was reminded that they are. I will miss him.
Michael
James Reed
"Bunker Mulligan"
1953-2005
Rest In Peace
I find the relationships that are created online to be incredibly interesting. They are unique and so very different than what you find in the "real world."
Not a value judgement, but an observation.
Posted by: J at June 6, 2005 11:06 PM PermalinkThank you David.
Fortunately, his family was able to post the sad news on his blog so that all his blog friends would know. The death of a blogger is a new phenomenon which I discuss at http://www.estatevaults.com/lm/archives/001596.html