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The New York Times published an overdue obituary for Pamela Colman Smith on January 2, 2026 (updated January 3, 2026) as part Overlooked, “a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.”

Sometimes you have to die twice before being noticed.

Judgement at play points to the cyclical operations of life and death. Without one, there is no other. As many times you are born, you die.

Judgment’s angel wakes us with their bright, brassy horn, The time is now! Decide!

The Times quotes Colman Smith’s A Protest Against Fear. Pixie speaks through the newspaper, addressing 2026 as much as 1907:

“It seems to me, fear has got hold of all this land. Each one has a great fear of himself, a fear to think, to do, to be, to act.”

Wake up!

“How can a country have a living, growing art when it is so bound by fear…?”

The time is now!

“This marvelous, great country, big in all its feeling and full of energy, and yet producing almost no freedom of thought or work!”

Create!

Look, the health of a country is evident by its art.

Marking death now is marking death twice. Burials are a second death. (Pamela Colman Smith’s grave is unmarked.) Which reminds me of Freud’s theory of mourning and melancholia. The melancholic fears letting go, and cannot come to terms with loss. Melancholic clinging is neurosis.

The Latin root of obituary is obitus (death). Its stem: obire (to go toward, to meet).

Judgement’s angel again: Meet the fear! But keep your distance. Change will come.

By chance, the New York Times published the obituary the same day this website was launched.