Elegy for LG

LG (her initials) is NOT dead. But she is about to leave her place of employment after more than a decade. There are a variety of reasons behind this, but none of them are really my business. Her leaving the company leaves me in a state of mourning. I've known her for nearly 3 years now. We physically met 5 months after I had started working for the company at a meeting. Although it was our first time meeting in person, we had talked over the phone frequently and emailed back and forth even more. She immediately pulled me into a warm embrace. It was completely natural; and so LG. (It can't be coincidence that her initials are also the initials for Life's Good. ) She IS a warm hug. She is everything you'd want a friend and co-worker to be: (seemingly) calm, caring, focused and the list could go on and on. Her Midwestern life is very different than my northeast chaos, but they are also very much the same. She is organized (at least when it comes t