Kim Currie Remembrance

Seems like a long time since I've posted here, and I'm already behind on writing about this year's European trip, but I wanted to write about a dear friend of mine who died on Sept. 24th, and whose memorial service will be held tonight [Oct. 5th] in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada.

Kim Currie [?I never knew her birthdate] - Sept. 24, 2019 Original Bad Girl

[That's what's written on the candle in runes]

Tonight is Kim's memorial in Etobicoke, Ontario. I remember her home there well. I'm sitting in my apartment in Kaunas, Lithuania writing this and meditating on my lost friend's life.

We met in the 80's at a WicCan Fest at the old UniCamp site. We were thrown together [literally] when the guys we were staying with found out that their 'significant others' had now decided to attend over the weekend. We had no idea!

Jim and Andy came and told me to pack up all my things and that they were going to move me to a cabin. The same had happened to Kim. We became friends instantly.

The last time I saw her was last summer at Fest. She had picked me up at the Toronto airport, and we stayed at a hotel overnight, and Ashley picked me up the next day. I thought we were close to her, but no, everyone was actually closer to Hamilton. Kim didn't come with this time, but the last time we were at Harvest Fest, our lewd, rude, and crude event was 'pin the penis on the pin-up guy' we had posted on the door of the 'B' [is for Bad Girls] cabin.

My fondest memories of her are her delicious Rose Mead, and ALL of the lewd, rude, and crude events. I still have the buns, boobs, and balls impressions made with poster paints on paper. I remember the lewd limbo; and when it was Isaac Bonewits turn, instead of shouting, "Isaac take your clothes off," we screamed, "Isaac take your hat off!"

I stayed with her during the Gaia Gathering in Toronto, and we all went to some Asian fusion bar, and sang and sang, and on the way home, I saw this elephant table in the hallway outside the W.C. and asked the owner if it were for sale? "$20?" I paid him, and Kim's boyfriend at the time carried it back to the car. It stayed at Kim's in Stouffville until my sister Cathy and I drove up from Dayton, OH for the Tribal Hearth gathering in February, and it now sits in her living room along with the 'Bad Girls' lava lamp, just next to the front door. We always had great fun together. When I was there in June, we had planned to meet on the American side at the casino in 2020. I was supposed to fly in to Buffalo and meet her there.

Now the only place we might meet again is in Freya's Hall. Goodbye, Kim, I'm really going to miss you!

-Prudence Priest, Oct. 5th, 2019

p.s. The photo is of the candle I'm burning for her during the remembrance ceremonial.

This side says 'KIM' in runes.