“She is not a puzzle to be solved, but a poem to be felt – line by unpredictable line.” – MJ Martin
A tribute to my amazing Mother, Sarah Brigid Martin / Kellogg (nee Walsh) – Born April 3, 1923, Died May 14, 2011. We are all still missing her every day.
She is the question the world keeps asking but never fully answers.
She can disarm with laughter or shatter silence with a glance.
At times, she is elegance wrapped in a whisper, and in others, she is chaos wearing perfume.
Her presence fills the room as though it had waited its whole life for her to arrive.
People try to define her – by what she does, how she loves, or what she chooses to reveal – but she remains beyond capture, existing as a living contradiction.
She may bring joy as bright as spring, or sadness that lingers like the last note of a fading song.
With her, one is never certain whether they are walking into sunlight or shadow.
And yet, the not-knowing becomes the very reason to stay, to wonder, to dream.
For all her complexities, she is the singular truth that makes everything else worth enduring.
To know her is not to understand her, but to be changed by her, in ways only the heart can measure.
About the Author:
Michael Martin is the Vice President of Technology with Metercor Inc., a Smart Meter, IoT, and Smart City systems integrator based in Canada. He has more than 40 years of experience in systems design for applications that use broadband networks, optical fibre, wireless, and digital communications technologies. He is a business and technology consultant. He was a senior executive consultant for 15 years with IBM, where he worked in the GBS Global Center of Competency for Energy and Utilities and the GTS Global Center of Excellence for Energy and Utilities. He is a founding partner and President of MICAN Communications and before that was President of Comlink Systems Limited and Ensat Broadcast Services, Inc., both divisions of Cygnal Technologies Corporation (CYN: TSX).
Martin served on the Board of Directors for TeraGo Inc (TGO: TSX) and on the Board of Directors for Avante Logixx Inc. (XX: TSX.V). He has served as a Member, SCC ISO-IEC JTC 1/SC-41 – Internet of Things and related technologies, ISO – International Organization for Standardization, and as a member of the NIST SP 500-325 Fog Computing Conceptual Model, National Institute of Standards and Technology. He served on the Board of Governors of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) [now Ontario Tech University] and on the Board of Advisers of five different Colleges in Ontario – Centennial College, Humber College, George Brown College, Durham College, Ryerson Polytechnic University [now Toronto Metropolitan University]. For 16 years he served on the Board of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), Toronto Section.
He holds three master’s degrees, in business (MBA), communication (MA), and education (MEd). As well, he has three undergraduate diplomas and seven certifications in business, computer programming, internetworking, project management, media, photography, and communication technology. He has completed over 50 next generation MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) continuous education in a wide variety of topics, including: Economics, Python Programming, Internet of Things, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive systems, Blockchain, Agile, Big Data, Design Thinking, Security, Indigenous Canada awareness, and more.