Sunshine through the clouds... (From BXtE.info staff blog)

This blog has been a long time coming. We kept postponing it for months, as technical matters required our attention. Now, we decided to start it, finally, because of a picture. A picture of a perfectly timed view. You can see the picture at the end of this post and it was perfectly timed because it was taken just as were posting the news about the Jasmine You memorial live. And because I have grown to associate such scenes with Jasmine. Partly because of the message the remaining members of Versailles have posted after his passing, about their climbing the steps to the Nippon Budokan and it suddenly starting to rain. It is, however, the sun through the clouds that makes me think of Jasmine more than the rain, because he shone brightly like that.

I was never his or Versailles' biggest fan, but somehow it was obvious that Jasmine was someone who brightened people's lives. I regret the fact that I never realized how much he meant to me until he was gone, but I like to believe he'd still be happy to know how many people's lives he's touched in one way or another. Despite his leaving us so soon, I think of Jasmine as someone who won in life, something not many people can say, even if they live to be a hundred. And so, sunshine through the rain, or clouds, will always remind me of him. Someone who, despite his dark circumstances shone brightly and touched people, even people who have never met him. In a way, sunshine through the clouds is like Jasmine smiling down at people, supportive, encouraging, gentle and kind, like so many people who knew him and loved him say he was.

Maybe it's strange that we started this blog with a post that refers to something sad, but on the other hand it seems fitting that it should start with what could be called a tribute to someone who seems to have affected everybody who met or just saw and heard him on TV or PC screens. This is for Elegant Jasmine You!