In Memory of Lars Juliussen [LBJ2]

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â View looking north from Lars home in Denmark

"With deep sadness, I report that Lars Juliussen, aka LBJ2, passed from our midst, from cancer, a week ago. He was buried April 30th. He was 53 and a half years old. Many of his friends had tried to reach him the last several weeks---but he simply wasn't able to respond. He was too ill. Thanks to his friend in Denmark, I got the news May 1. Lars is no longer with us...not in body. It was way, way too early...Â this deep and unbelievably calm, loving soul---who uttered not a word of bitterness nor blame through his near 2 years of battle---died so young, without wanting to burden anyone, without a cry of anguish. He gave thanks to all of us, with his quiet love, that gentle caress he had in his words, like a mountain, only gentle. He wrote, of the dedis people gave him: "It gave me a loving warm feeling...that more people than I thought...care about a nobody like me..." The periods are his: As if he were stopping to get the strength to say more...And "a nobody like me"? Lars, you were bigger than the whole cosmos, you had a deep gentle heart filled with love that whispered from you and gave everybody such joy even when you were suffering so much...if you were a 'nobody', than I was a speck of sand..."

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â "The Good Die Young" by LBJ2 (Lars Juliussen)

"He was buried in the Danish town, "Gillelege". It sounds like Galilee. There's no connection---I looked it up---but it doesn't matter: Lars was a loving Christian, so somehow being buried in a place that 'sounds' like Galilee is a special gift. He was so accepting of all faiths, and of no faiths, he was so global---he told me, if he survived, he wanted to form a globe-wide "artists around the world" movement, all done on the web. He must've known it was a dream---given his ravaging condition---but he wrote it with so much love, so much hope for the future...And then, Gillelege is a small town off the North Sea, so rustic and beautiful. Yet, like Lars, it's a 'quiet' beautiful, beauty that hugs you rather than shouts. He grew up there, and I'd like to think that the soil will yield exquisite flowers from now on, to honor this dear, dear soul..."

-The previous quotes were from Lars' friend, anahata.c.Â

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Lars Juliussen's gallery and website

"i love dogs.. always have :) I have many animals waiting for me on the Rainbow Bridge. Especially my beloved German Longhaired Sheppard, of which i lost in October 2014"

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â -Lars Juliussen

We invite you to join with us in sending condolences to Lars' family and friends.

~The Renderosity Staff and Community