My dear friend Lyle Brooks, nephew of Allen Ginsberg and grandson of Naomi Ginsberg, has died. I wrote a remembrance of him on Facebook. My hope is that someone will write an obituary of him that describes his twenty years as volunteer coordinator for Beyond Morning Sickness and the HER (Hyperemesis Education & Research) Foundation. He was an extraordinary human being. I can hardly expect in this life to meet anyone who has done more to help desperately ill women on an individual level to get the medical help, peer assistance, and true empowerment that they need. Thousands of women and their children are healthy because of his work.
Update: Funeral arrangements and a tribute page for Lyle are now online.
If you knew Lyle and would like to be in touch with me and others who remember him, please write me at the email address at the bottom of my contact page.
