"Sarah's Garden" A Tribute to Sarah Meyer

[Peter Presland]

Sarah Meyer died from cancer on 4th March at the age of 73. I first came across Sarah through here blog. I was so impressed I sent her the following email:

> Sarah
>
> Just a brief note to tell you that your 'Index Research' blog is very
> much appreciated.
>
> As someone who has learned to scan the 'normal' MSM news sources
> purely as a means of keeping tabs on the power elites 'for public
> consumtion'
> interpretation of world affairs and the alleged motives of the State,
> I spend far more time reading the likes of 'Global Research,
> Information Clearing House, Consortium News, Truthout and other
> 'alternative' sources, in trying and make sense of this crazy
> smoke-and-mirror world of ours.
>
> Blogs such as your are an invaluable aggregation tool for getting to
> the bottom of major issues and it is therefore one of only a very
> select few on my 'MUST READ' list.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Peter Presland

She replied:

From: Sarah Meyer [mailtoarahnmeyer@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: 09 April 2008 01:51
To: Nimrod
Subject: Re: Thank you

Dear Peter Presland,

What a lovely email to read at this, for me, ungodly hour of morning.
I much appreciate your thoughts and your taking the time to email me.
Most kind of you! Was it the Basra blog that prompted you to write?

Well, a man called Danny Schechter of
www.mediachannel.org was here for dinner over three years ago. It is HIS fault I am blogging. Amazing mind / energy. He has been banging on, in the U.S., about the financial crisis for two years, and knows more than anyone about the scandals, so recommend his daily newsletter. Also recommend his friend, Carolyn Baker of Truth to Power daily newsletter And of course, two of my favorite people, on whose site depth articles appear, Jason Miller, and Tom Englehardt.
The blogging community very inspiring and supportive.


Unfortunately, being 71 with a stroke last year during the Lebanon crisis and wrenching emails from Haitham Sabbah in Palestine and friends in lebanon, blogging whacks my health. But I will try my best to live up to expectations. Taking time off to go with daughter to North Pole this summer for two weeks. (Father was explorer there in 1930)

Where do you live in U.K? And, being nosy, what do you do in your daily life? Not many people have time, these days, to explore the internet.

So, again, thank you!!

With best wishes,

Sarah Meyer

We exchanged a few more emails and I made sure I read all her output.

Felicity Arbuthnot has penned an appreciation at Global Research which I commend to DPF members.

Sarah Mayer will be missed.

[David Guyatt]

Thanks for this Peter. I had not heard of her before, and now it is too late. I would have read her. It was a very nice tribute from Felicity Arbuthnot, I thought.