This is Courtney. She designed the “Souls of San Francisco” logo. We met randomly at an alterations store a couple years ago. There was a note saying the owner was out of town. The number on that sign was Courtney’s number, so she came down from her apartment to let me on so I could get my pants. We started talking and I told her about this project I was working on and that I needed someone to make a logo for it.

She told me she was a graphic designer and said she’d help me make some stuff. I don’t know why she decided to donate her time to some complete stranger, but she did.

I just found out she passed after a long battle with brain cancer.

I feel sad. There are tears that I feel in my body but for some reason they’re not coming out of my eyes.

I don’t really know what to say.

The last time I saw her was about a month ago, we shared a porkchop at Nopa because it was good protein for her and helped her T cell count. When we left the restaurant we ran into King Kobbler on the corner of Divis and Hayes and the two of them flirted. It was nice to see her laugh. She ended up buying some of his cobbler.

I’m grateful for the all Courtney did to help make Souls of San Francisco what it is.

I hope where ever she is…that she has peace.