In Memoriam Susanne Milde - 1956 - 2017
What do you write when someone you loved more dearly than anything in the world is suddenly not there anymore? How do you start? I don’t know, I honestly don’t. But given the events of three weeks ago, I am now confronted with this. Three weeks ago, on June 28th 2017, my mom, Susanne Milde, passed away in the early hours of morning, following a brief stint in hospital, and a much much longer fight against cancer. To say that it was a shock is quite frankly the understatement of the year. For as long as I can remember, she had been the pillar of stability, if not quite calm, in the family. Be it juggling a job in Hamburg with an hour-long commute along back roads and raising a kid in Northern Germany, shepherding said kid through the teenage years in Prague and Austria, or flying all over Europe and the world while keeping the company office in Frankfurt purring, she had always seemed to make it look easy. And no matter how chaotic things got, they were certainly never boring.