It has been a very somber morning for me. As most of you know, yesterday we learned that our dear friend, and TSC Vendor, Susan Smith of Honeybee Soaps, had passed away.
I have ave been a big fan of her soaps since I first discovered them about 7-8 years ago. Since then, they have always been a part of my den.
Based on on a few recent orders, we had been in contact over email over the past several months. She shared with me some of her health issues and and her concerns about upcoming surgeries. I myself had some upcoming surgeries, and we connected over it.
I had not really heard much from her after her surgeries, except her posting that things were looking up. John, had indicated that she had been unresponsive to emails, and that gave me concern. Chad indicates to me that he was going to look for obituaries, just in case, and I decided to do the same. My fears were confirmed when I found her obituary. Chad was able to connect a few dots to confirm it was her.
It didn’t really sink in for me until this morning when I did a shave in remembereance of her. I used her bath soap, shave soap, and I applied her body butter as an aftershave balm. I filmed the Shave for my VLOG, but did the shave in complete silence, just reflecting as I shaved.
Now, afterwards, I’m still in a mood. It’s one of those things. I wish I knew her better. I wish I had been able to meet her. But just glad I knew her at least a little bit on the personal side. We live in an online shaving world, and you never really know, no matter how much we share, how well you know the person on the other side of the keyboard.
I consider myself lucky to have placed a huge order recently of shave and bath soaps, and have enough of both to last me a very long time. I will cherish them all, and will think of her every time I use them.
She passed on 4 Dec 18. Rest In Peace Sue.
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