Please pardon this departure from the general approach of the site. As some may know, Gardner Goldsmith's mother, Shirley, passed away on Sunday. He has informed people that news would be announced about the services in her honor. She certainly deserved to be honored; she was a remarkable and outstanding woman of great insight, energy and integrity. For over a year, she battled a strange rheumatological syndrome that never relented, and she took it on with great strength and intensity, pushing herself beyond what many had initially thought were her capabilities.