A year has passed - I just wanted to drop by here, to wish you all the best Lynette, wherever your essence may be. Wishing your spirit all the greatest energy and glow. Missing all those long long walks we took by Portmeadow and around Jericho and the visits to the cafes and the Ashmolean and the Museum of Modern Art. Many years ago now, but I often think of those days. Best, always!

As further testament and honour to the sharpness of Lynette's intellect, I'd also like to mention here her excellent research work carried out whilst completing her Master’s degree at Oxford University, which she completed after her studies at The Sorbonne and London University -- Lynette was characteristically modest, as all who knew her will attest, and she barely even told people about her days at Oxford or her publications, but she had achieved a great deal academically and as a thinker and intellectual -- she co-authored an authoritative and respected study of forced migration -- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Refugee-Crises-International-Response-Permanent/dp/8388463454/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Refugee+Crises+and+International+Response%3A+Towards+Permanent+Solutions%3F&qid=1634914546&qsid=262-3892492-6122824&s=books&sr=1-1&sres=8388463454&srpt=ABIS_BOOK Lynette was a person of many talents -- and we miss you. I should also mention Lynette’s intense interest in Orthodox Eastern Christianity of the Levant, as well as contemplative Buddhist and Hindu traditions, areas in which she was learned and well-read, though she always had her own independent prism on these traditions: she had seriously reflected on these ancient texts, and had attended monastic retreats in those traditions, Lynette was not a simplistic, unquestioning ‘follower.’ Lynette also loved , adored art and literature – Rilke’s poetry, The Surrealists, too many writers and painters to mention – she always had a book with her and had always discovered something new to reflect on -- she never gave up her search and thirst for knowledge, retaining her deep curiosity about humanity and their capabilities for kindness and goodness. She was not what one would ever call materialistic, limited or shallow in her thought. Expansive mind! Thinking of you Lynette, and wherever you may be, please think of us. I am not sure why, but I somehow feel you are looking over us somehow, somewhere. I do very much hope so. Rest well, good friend. Rest well good spirit.

Dearest Lynette. I am so very sorry to hear of your passing. I adored your mind and the way we laughed. I missed you all the time I didn’t speak to you and I miss you now. X