Sunday, July 13, 2014
Such sad news, Arden in the prime of her productive life. My deepest condolences especially to her husband Tom and son Malcolm (whom I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting), to her father and sister Laura (with whom I spent time when living in Washington), and to the rest of her family and many friends.
Generous, smart, iconoclast… Arden’s loving spirit will remain with me and certainly so many others… So many fond memories remain from over 30 years ago; we’d only once met up since those undergraduate days at Lawrence, but I somehow expected us to meet again…
I reread Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach,” thinking of Arden: the “eternal note of sadness” of the sea, and the “darkling plain” of the world, now that much more dimmed without Arden’s shining presence.
R.I.P. dear soul, dear Leo, dear Arden.
