Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Stunned

Not to depress you on a Tuesday- but we just got a phone call. The kind of phone call you never, ever want to get.

One of our friends, Jada Edkins, got killed in a car accident early this on her way home from Sacramento. She was twenty-four years old. I have absolutely no details on how/where/what/why - those of you who know me, this was one of S' friends from Monterey, so you probably don't know her. Either way, the result was the same: A whole family is sitting somewhere in ruins, planning a memorial service for someone who was in the prime of her life less than twenty-four hours ago.

Please, please, I beg of you: Buckle up, don't drink and drive, or talk on the phone, and SLOW DOWN! Y'all drivers (I abstain for insurance/nonsense/never had a drivers' license purposes) scare the hell out of me most of the time. Your extra five or ten minutes aren't worth it.

I'm fine, don't need any phone calls - but may post more details as they become clear. Or not.

5 comments:

Kay Cooke said...

Sad for you. Terrible to get sudden news like that. Hug someone you love real hard.

Maya said...

Linds.. actually drinks are sounding TERRIBLE right now, know what I mean?

Maya said...

Hi Astrid! My husband is a PG/Carmel/Pebble native, so of course we were back for the memorial this past weekend. There were almost 400 people there, which was really nice for the Edkins family to see.

Did you by any chance run into Jada at El Fornaio or Rio Grill? So sad!

Maya said...

Nafen - did you go to the memorial? We did - I heard it was 366, but there were TONS of people that came late, left early, etc.

Maya said...

Wow! How cool! She would have loved that - I'll be sure to pass that on to her family the next time I see them.