[Leica] IN MEMORIUM - Dr Ted

[j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)]

Dear Dr Ted,Thank you for sharing this memorial with us. The words you wrote 
for your wife Irene are deeply moving. One can easily read between the lines 
and picture what life is like without someone like her. I admire you 
courage. Jean-Michel

Jean-Michel Mertz
Strasbourg

 > From: tedgrant at shaw.ca
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:38:31 -0700
> Subject: [Leica] IN MEMORIUM
> 
> To the LUG FAMILY. A shared memorial.
> 
> The LUG to me evolved into a form of family over the years, must be near 
> 10 
> years?  I've made a grand number of friends whose personage is only on the 
> screen, but in mental relationship they are as brothers and sisters within 
> the LUG family.
> 
> Others I've the greater plesure of shaking their hands, enjoyed face to 
> face 
> conversation and most certainly  "a wee dram of Single Malt Scotch." We 
> have 
> laughed ourselves almost silly at times and yet felt the loss of some of 
> the 
> finest photographer human beings you would ever want to know.
> 
> My wife Irene who passed away a year ago, some of you knew her personally, 
> was part of the family as are most wives and or husbands. So it is with 
> this 
> "membership of screen family" I post this memorial to my dear wife Irene 
> who 
> started my wild and crazy life in photography when she gave me my first 
> camera, 27 May 1950.
> 
> "She was the toughest assed "PHOTO EDITOR ONE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE!"  By 
> the 
> same token, gave praise so beautifully when it was worth receiving when 
> you 
> "shot a good one!"
> 
> TO IRENE:
> 
> The past few days as the one year has arrived as I am today, it's bringing 
> many wonderful memories of Irene and our lives during our 64 years  ( I 
> was 
> going to say enjoyable wedded bliss?)   But I thought as I typed the last 
> word.... "bliss" there would be a bolt of lightening and me sitting here 
> fried and naked before a smoldering computer! :-) That would be her quiet 
> subtle way of letting me know she was still around keeping an eye out for 
> my 
> well being. :-)
> 
> As every couple do during a long and generally happy union, we all have 
> what we might say, the odd... "Maddening moments!"  However if the love is 
> strong enough for each other, it holds fast and we stand fast together and 
> push the "usually minor negative moment" aside! And carry on as steadfast 
> as 
> we were when we said our marriage vows to each other so long ago, when we 
> were a couple of twenty year olds in the truest innocence of the world!
> 
> Over the years while away on long periods of assignments I missed her, but 
> always knew when I opened the door to home. Or walking into the waiting 
> crowded air-terminal her smiling face and warm hug was the best home 
> coming 
> in the world!
> 
> Today, one year after her passing, sometimes I hate opening the door to 
> "our 
> empty home" that still has her comforting touch that I know will always be 
> there. She maybe gone, but her wonderful presence is still here assuring 
> me 
> at a low moment she is still keeping an eye on me with her ever loving 
> ways. 
> I did love her so!
> 
> Thank you all for being part of my family.
> 
> ted
> 
> 
> 
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