It is with sadness that I begin this page, because it signals to us that life is fragile. Readers of the site know that TemariKai.com was originally dedicated in honor of Sarah Robinson, who was waging her battle with lung cancer at the time I designed the full site as you now see it. Sarah died of complications of the disease shortly after TemariKai.com was launched, and it was with a heavy heart that I changed the dedication from her honor to her honor and memory.

       Since that time both the readership of TemariKai.com as well as the membership of TalkTemari has grown tremendously, and it is quite boggling as to how many people are among our number that have been touched by cancer. Some of us have lost those near and dear to us, others are courageously living with it. The blessing is that somehow temari seems to bring to all a sense of peace, and for that we give thanks.

       Unfortunately we have this week lost another member of TalkTemari to a battle with cancer, and that now prompts me to create this page. Those on the list know how much we all touch each other; let us daily honor and support those among us are living while fighting and overcoming this illness, and remember those that have lost their battles:

• Sarah Robinson; March 12, 2001
• Christine Barker; May 9, 2004