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I met Leslie Harpold six years ago when a large cardboard box showed up unexpectedly at my door. Inside was a large 32 gallon stainless steel trash can that I'd added to my Amazon wish list a few weeks before on a whim.
The gift note inside said (...and I'm paraphrasing) "I wanted to meet the sort of freak who'd put a 32 gallon stainless steel trash can on his wish list. —Leslie Harpold"
Today I got a phone call that Leslie had passed away.
In between those two events we spent a couple of great Thanksgivings together, we got to live in the same city for a few years, we got angry at each other a couple of times, as friends are prone to do, we gave each other design advice, and life advice, drank and ate together, went whale watching together, and she was a great friend to my son Henry.
Her annual Advent Calendar, the last one which she leaves unfinished, was a testament to her optimism for a better world, and a reminder that such a world was and IS within our reach.
As a designer I admired and respected her; as a friend I loved her and as a force of nature I feared her.
During her short amount of time with us she touched an incredible amount of lives and inspired others to live their lives as honestly and decently as she did. We're all better for having know her, and I'd like to thank her family for having shared her with us.
