[Aquanet] Cia Price.

[Raymond Blum]

I can start
   For the life of me I cannot remember the name of it, but in old  
days, there were usenet newsgroups - like Google or Yahoo groups of  
sorts - and on one of these several of us were talking about  
watercolors and one of us suggested that we correspond - we started  
out just sending email to each other, CCing the entire set of people,  
perhaps 12 or so.  The person who suggested that we correspond was one  
Cia Price and she was the only one "bold" enough to suggest it.  I  
loved being in touch with other watercolorists who had so much more  
experience than I did.  Cia was, along with Julie Eastman, one of the  
more experienced people in that early group and was always  
encouraging.  Back then the state of the art was such that none of us  
had web pages or could even send images as attachments - it was mostly  
text and dialog via email.

I asked about creating a mailing list and Cia jumped on the idea and  
did nothing but encourage me.  That was the start of aquanet.

Cia dropped out, for a few years as I recall, as she told me that she  
felt that the group had gained momentum and her own energies would be  
better spent elsewhere.  I think that she actually remained subscribed  
the entire time, but as a lurker (silent member) of the list.  She  
reemerged after a while and became more active and enthusiastic than  
ever.

I remember distinctly when I had not painted for a few years and was  
somewhat discouraged, Cia egged me on gently to see the lapse as just  
that: a lull not an end to my artwork.  That made a real difference as  
I saw then that I could resume painting whenever I was ready, it was  
not something that I had to see myself as having abandoned or "failed  
at."  There's that enthusiasm of hers at work!  :)

I will miss her and am glad to have known her. She touched our lives.

---Raymond

On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Patrick Davis wrote:

> ClamAV 0.95.1
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> Hi, gang.
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> I did not know Cia very well, even electronically, and I did not  
> know she was one of the instigators of this excellent group.
>
> I'd like to make a couple of suggestions. First, could one of her  
> paintings be put up permanently in memoriam as was done for Ed West?  
> Second, would some of you who've been around from the start share  
> some of your memories of Cia- which would allow us Newbies to get to  
> know her better?
>
> Just a thought,
> pat
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