Get Well Tash

We all missed you at Brooklyn Beta :( But we were thinking of...

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:00:00 -0400

We all missed you at Brooklyn Beta :(

But we were thinking of you *all the time* and made this **AWESOME** thinking of you poster in bright green. Green is healing! It is also rather blinding, don’t stare too long… It says Get Well Tash! and has five whole love hearts!

Another ace photo by Patrick H Lauke :) Thanks Pat!

Hi Tash, I saw this today and somehow thought of you trying to...

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:26:21 -0400

Hi Tash, I saw this today and somehow thought of you trying to get better and figured it might make you smile. Hope recovery is coming along… Shelley

You’ve got to do something. getwelltash.tumblr.com Love, Merlin

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:36:00 -0400

You’ve got to do something.

getwelltash.tumblr.com

Love,

Merlin

Get well, Tash! - Derek & Heather

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:32:00 -0400

Get well, Tash!

- Derek & Heather

hey tash

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:26:33 -0400

thinking of you and hoping that you get better quick!

Sit back, relax, and chill. There might be lots to do, but...

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:17:40 -0400

Sit back, relax, and chill. There might be lots to do, but there’s lots of time to do it.

My very best — Mr. Lopp.

Tash, this is a photo of the amazing fish hook necklace you gave...

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:11:29 -0400

Tash, this is a photo of the amazing fish hook necklace you gave me as a speaker’s gift back in 2008. I’ll never forget my trip to New Zealand and the incredible job you did at making people from all over the globe feel right at home. Thank you for rocking and get well soon!

Dan Cederholm

Via email

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:49:50 -0400

“all the best to Tash, yours Jasmina”

“can you do me a favor, though, and express our concern for tash, and our fondest wishes for her rapid repair? i’d surely appreciate it.”

Adam and Nurri

I can’t compete with this tumblr’s cute dogs, so i...

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:26:19 -0400

I can’t compete with this tumblr’s cute dogs, so i thought i’d get a big cat to tell you how much i hope that the loveliest person from my favourite 2010 event gets back in shape really soon.

Regine Debatty

Photo

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:51:54 -0400

Hope you feel better Tash! How can two bunnies in cups not make...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:37:59 -0400

Hope you feel better Tash! How can two bunnies in cups not make one feel a little bit better? Daniel Burka

Dearest Tash… These are the flowers that were in my hotel...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:01:42 -0400

Dearest Tash… These are the flowers that were in my hotel room when I arrived at Webstock ‘09 to speak. I can’t even begin to tell you how welcome and warm they — and you — made me feel.

I’m sharing them back with you, hoping that they brighten your day, bring back wonderful memories, and help you smile just a little more. Get well… Thinking of you… Derek Featherstone.

Slowing down to the speed of life

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:24:05 -0400

Dear Tash,

While we haven’t met in person yet, I’ve already learned from your posse that you are a super amazing human. The challenge with being super amazing, is that sometimes you can forget to take care of yourself. I know this has happened to me. Twice in my life I’ve been “sentenced” to bed rest where over activity was a matter of life and death. Being forced to be still was super challenging and yet, I found something meaningful there. I finally (for at least a period of time) slowed down to the speed of life. The perspective you can gain from stillness is immense.

I am praying with all my heart that you get well soon…and in the quiet times, I hope you discover a gift of perspective that can only come from being still.

Love,

Glenda (the goodwitch) Sims

Photo

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:21:16 -0400

Oh Tash! Hang tough, sister. You’ve got a big fan here in...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:33:59 -0400

Oh Tash! Hang tough, sister. You’ve got a big fan here in sunny Providence, Rhode Island, and I’m beaming you a speedy and smiling recovery — and better health care than you’d find here (as this unfortunate bit of user interface shows).

Here’s hoping something clever or at least vaguely hallucinatory emerges from all those pain killers.

Be well,
your chum Josh Clark

Dear Tash, If you haven’t read Lachlan’s post to you just below this one, go and do that...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:36:53 -0400

Dear Tash,

If you haven’t read Lachlan’s post to you just below this one, go and do that before you read this.

You see, the thing is, I was quite sure for a moment he was about to launch into a little bit of bedside-get-well-soon-erotica. When someone starts a get well post with “I do know something about lying on my back, immobile….” what else could it be?

Thankfully for us all, he was simply recalling his last bender. But it did remind me of a moment of indiscretion I stumbled upon last year when Crunchie and Birdy got a bit carried away. Which got me wondering if perhaps this is how your back went out….

Were you and Ben having a wee role playing session of WWF?

In any case love, do rest up, and don’t use all of those opiates unless you really need them… We will be back over next February and plan to party like it’s 2010!

lots of love and hugs from us all xoxoxo

Lisa, Crunchie & Birdy

See, you should strive to be like these Capybaras. They...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:14:05 -0400

See, you should strive to be like these Capybaras. They understand the meaning of Life Artist. Get your man to give you some tummy scratches (just don’t turn over!).

DON’T BE A LLAMA. Keep your ass in bed! (<3 Amy)

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:10:06 -0400

DON’T BE A LLAMA. Keep your ass in bed! (<3 Amy)

Dearest, most amazing, Tash, I can’t really comprehend the scope of what you’re facing...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:00:00 -0400

Dearest, most amazing, Tash,

I can’t really comprehend the scope of what you’re facing at the moment, but I do know something about lying on my back, immobile.

Once upon a time, my nervous system decided it had had enough of my shenanigans and it would teach me a lesson. I woke up paralysed. I don’t know how long it lasted (it’s not like I could look at a clock!) but based on the passage of sunlight across my wall and the time when I could move again I know it was several hours.

It’s amazing how hard that can be. Being stuck in a room. Stuck in a bed. Stuck in your brain.

I doubt it compares to your experience, but as I lay there watching the shadows move on my wall, I had cause to wonder if this was all that was next - if everything I had done was all I would do. And that scared me a lot.

Eventually I could move again. And it hurt. Very much. But I got better. As you’ll get better.

When you can get about again, you’ll have new strength and new determination. You’ll be even more kickass than before. Tougher, stronger, even more utterly amazing.

I have always admired your passion and dedication to the web and your community and Webstock (which are all really the same thing, right?) And now you need to focus that dedication and passion towards healing yourself. Towards whatever it is you need to do get better. And the best thing is, you don’t have to do it by yourself.

You have fantastic friends, colleagues and compadres. Your feller is one hell of a sort. You have global network of web-lovin’ people who also love you. Webstock *is* love and all the love you’ve poured into it is coming back to you now. And it’ll never stop.

Get well, Tash. We love you.

Lachlan

PS http://fuckyeahbostonterriers.tumblr.com/ may just be the best thing on the Internet for helping a Tash get better.

Lisa: OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!! I finally got to meet Mr Bird! Bird: I...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:45:00 -0400

Lisa: OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!! I finally got to meet Mr Bird!

Bird: I thought you said Scenariogirl was a whippet??! Foiled again!