Rainbow at Alicia’s Monday night memorial May 13, 2010

Thanks to everyone who joined us, even in the cruddy weather. While Alicia’s high school English teacher was reading selections from To Kill A Mockingbird, there was a break in the rain and then an unexpected gift appeared…

It was captured by someone who was on their way to the service and shared this picture. The accompanying email read:

Emily took this picture as she was walking up to Alicia Parlette’s public memorial service this evening. Synchronicity? Coincidence? No. Faith and Love.

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The Road to Glory May 12, 2010

I took this yesterday as we were cleaning out her apartment – one of the notes Alicia kept taped to her bathroom mirror. I like to think she’s in glory now.

glo·ry

[glawr-ee, glohr-ee]

–noun

(emphasis mine)

1. very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle

2. something that is a source of honor, fame, or admiration; a distinguished ornament or an object of pride

3. adoring praise or worshipful thanksgiving

4. resplendent beauty or magnificence

5. a state of great splendor, magnificence, or prosperity

6. a state of absolute happiness, gratification, contentment

7. the splendor and bliss of heaven; heaven

8. a ring, circle, or surrounding radiance of light represented about the head or the whole figure of a sacred person, as Christ or a saint; a halo, nimbus, or aureole

Reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/glory

Reminder: SF Public Memorial is Tonight May 10, 2010

Please join us – we will be meeting in Lafayette Park at 6 PM, rain, shine, or threatening cloud cover that we hope will just hold out and not actually rain on us.

Scroll down to the entry from May 5 for more details.

Small Chronicle story about Monday memorial May 7, 2010

A public memorial will be held Monday for Alicia Parlette, the 28-year-old Chronicle copy editor with incurable cancer who shared her story with San Francisco and the world.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/06/BAOR1DAI11.DTL#ixzz0nHPEndMv

San Francisco Memorial To Be Held 6PM 5/10 May 5, 2010

Alicia’s friends will be holding a public memorial for Ms. Parlette this coming Monday.

Family, friends, and readers are invited to a public celebration in San Francisco.

We will have some friends of Alicia’s speak, share a reading from To Kill A Mockingbird, and open the stage to those who wish to tell a story about Alicia or her work.

When

Monday May 10

6-8 PM PST

Where

Lafayette Square, San Francisco

(on Sacramento between Gough and Laguna)

The gathering will take place in the picnic area.

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Clarabelle Update

I’m sharing a parts of a recent email with Bernadette, one of Alicia’s collegues at the Chronicle. She has taken Clarabelle and passed along this (quite frankly, sometimes hilarious) update.