Jill Turner

My sweet friend... may you fly high, may your spirit finally be free...such a lovely woman.. I pray and hope your finally at peace...I will treasure our talks, our walks and time spent always...

It is true that Jill was a committed member of the Writing Room at Forbes. She brought passion, persistence, and honesty to her writing practice. For a year or two, I also attended a dance space where she danced. It was always so clear that her commitments to art, politics, and community were deep. I didn't know that she was one of the founders of the ground-breaking women's band Lillith. Thinking of her family and all those who are mourning her.

So many memories surfaced upon reading Jill's obituary early this morning: putting on plays in the basement for the neighborhood kids on Buckingham Street; dancing to music playing on the old Victrola in your dining room; pitching tents in your backyard; finding precious mica among the rocks in the backyard wall; listening to your mother play the piano, especially They always, always Pick on Me (they never ever let me be.... I'm so very lonesome, awfully sad) and we would dance around and...