Yesterday St. Aidan's Episcopal Church in San Francisco hosted a memorial Eucharist for Vicki, one of the most versatile humans I've ever encountered. From the Naval Academy at Annapolis, through service in Vietnam, later in the US Foreign Service, then a transition, and finally the Episcopal Diaconate and building Transepiscopal, she was one caring, funny, brilliant and humane woman.
As those who frequent this blog know, I make a practice of photographing little public political demonstrations whenever I can. I literally know of no one who I encountered more regularly at these events over the last 15 years in the San Francisco Bay Area than Vicki. Like me, even though the particular cause might seem hopeless, she believed in showing up, in witnessing, never knowing exactly what might come of it.
Here are few of these:
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| In 2010, standing with the hotel workers of Local 2 UniteHERE | |
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| At an interfaith gathering in Berkeley in 2010 on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks | |
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| On Vicki's home turf in the North Bay in 2015, speaking out against a risky plan to move crude oil by train through the 'hood. |
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| Reminding the Bay Area of the needs of unhoused people as San Francisco upended itself for the Super Bowl in 2016. |
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| Calling out Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza -- in 2018 | |
There have been few like her.
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