03/03/08, 4:07pm…Light a candle for Windchill

March 3rd, 4:07pm: A 3 hour truck ride later and I’m back. And my email box is filled with people hoping that I will continue to post here and I will. I think I need it as much as you do. I also think you need to talk as well. I think we all need to ‘hug’ at a distance (something else Windchill taught me, normally I don’t like people in my airspace and now I find I need them in order to survive, just as he did).

Thus I wish to make an appeal to those with ‘techie’ friends. I will be making a list of the things we need help with to make Windchill’s non-profit a reality. But we have an immediate need that I think somebody can help us fulfill out there – I would like to create an online forum for Windchill and those cared about him. I will gladly continue to post here but I think you need to share your thoughts as well. So many have written such beautiful things, encouragement and concern over our health, poems and songs and pictures. His guestbook – first a way to encourage him, and now a way to grieve for him and say “goodbye” is probably not the solution. It’s a way to shout out at the universe that you care – and you’re doing that and it means so much. I’m sure it would mean a lot to him. And I know it means a lot to those of us who cared for him day and night.

So world I’m asking for your help in creating that forum – either a program I can somehow plug into my website, or a blog site that’s relatively easy to use — but isn’t filled with commercialism either,so we’ll need to find a way to make it affordable to me. Absolutely none of the dollars donated for Windchill are being used to pay for things like the bandwidth all of you fans of his have used with this site, memory space, etc. We feel very strongly those dollars should go first towards whatever the final amounts of all the costs were for his care and then towards his non-profit organization thus I will pay for the site.

By the way, people from all over the world seem to be lighting candles for Windchill – I thought the fact that people have been doing that through his ordeal, and now in his passing, was absolutely beautiful. I think we have our friend at Friends of Barbaro for that:

Candlelight vigil site