I know many of you follow Jo-Anne’s fabulous museum and textile blog: Zho Zho’s Textile Adventures.  It’s been featured in my side bar for the last month.  It’s time to change it for my October feature, but right now I can’t. Jo-Anne never mentioned it on her blog, or to any of her followers and online friends, but she has been fighting cancer for well over a decade.  She wanted her life, and her blog, to be about the things she loved, and enjoyed: fabric and history, colour and design, the wonderful minutiae of a thousand lives well lived in museum objects, and the joy of new creations.  She didn’t want it to be about her illness: the long slog, yet another test or treatment or trip to the doctor.  That wasn’t her life, that was something that was thrust on her.  Her life was her family and friends and art and fabric and discovery. Jo was so full of life in herself, and had fought so long, and defied so many expectations, that I …