Lori with ghost train

 Eight years ago I was looking for pictures of Lori and found this in a thumb drive. When I uploaded it on a computer and the image appeared on the screen I was shocked to see the train arriving like a premonition. Lori with Ghost Train at Marcy Avenue station. I couldn’t remember it being in the picture before, or if I had deliberately timed the shot.

We were going to Battery Park City to meet friends for a picnic she had organized to celebrate our marriage. I’m not sure if this was our first anniversary or if it was only weeks after we got married. Was this in October 2006 or 2007? When I found this picture 8 or 9 years later Lori was in home hospice, in her studio, in her death bed, and I was looking for photos of her and found this one and she died that night, 2:30AM, August 1, 2015. 

Our friends Jimmy Blackford and Liv Mette Larsen and my beloved sister in law, Lisa de Ybarrando, were with us when she stopped breathing.

Among the treasures I inherited from Lori are many of her many friends who loved her and were with us in spirit or who were able to come over and help in some way, and many more waiting on Facebook who flooded her page with comments and hearts as soon as I posted the news. The presence of all that love and compassion sustained us and still sustain me. 

Thank you for your continued presence in my life.

Love, Lars.