Tessa links

I miss my friend.


At a swing dance on Tessa's birthday, spring 2005.

If you haven't read my previous blog post already, i hope you will.

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So for the past month (has it only been one month? has it *already* been a whole month?), i've been saving a bunch of open tabs (on multiple web browsers and multiple computers) with various blog posts and articles i found about Tessa. I knew i wanted to do something with all of the pieces; maybe one day i'll print them out and make a memory book, along with some of my emails and photos. For now i'm just going to compile them here.

This is primarily for myself; perhaps it's a step in dealing with the loss of my friend, and/or a gesture of moving on. And/or just building a reference so i'll have these links handy. Feel free to skip this post if you don't care. (But - i hope you do care.)


"Goodbye and God Bless (for Tessa)"
A wonderful piece written by one of her professors at UIUC (this is the post that many of us have been sending around). Absolutely worth reading.
http://www.open.salon.com/blog/libertarius/2009/08/16/goodbye_and_god_bless

"Taken"
A short piece by another professor at UIUC.
http://dhawhee.blogs.com/d_hawhee/2009/08/taken.html

"RIP Tessa Oberg"
Jen's blog post; another nice piece which i think is worth reading (make sure to also read Rasheed's response at the bottom).
http://jennyloohoo.livejournal.com/66058.html

Fin in a Waste of Waters" (Tessa's blog)
She posted to this blog from July 2006 through October 2007. I'm starting at the beginning and (re)reading through it. Her last post was a beautiful piece which detailed her life as it would have been remembered by her grandchildren after she died. I once attempted this exercise of writing my own eulogy, but i never finished (and it sucked anyway). Hers is awesome.
http://fininawasteofwaters.blogspot.com/


Tessa's obituary in the Rockford Register Star
http://www.legacy.com/RRStar/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=131474559

Guest Book for Tessa (only online for a few more days (until 9/16/2009)).
http://www.legacy.com/gb2/default.aspx?bookid=9071102403711

Partial academic bio, posted in relation to one of her scholarships.
http://www.jkcf.org/our-scholars/current/2224-Tessa-M-Oberg

A post i found with a photo and a link to the professor's piece i linked above.
http://citiesandsigns.blogspot.com/2009/08/eulogy-for-tessa-oberg-by-one-of-our.html


Those are all of the links i had saved; i'll edit this post if i find more.