Sometimes the beauty of an extraordinary human heart is just too great to describe in words...
We are heartbroken and devastated to have to share the peaceful passing of Alycia Louise Novak, at the TBRHSC on July 24th, 2024, with family by her side. She was 37 years old. Alycia’s sweetness was a large part of her essence; kind and gentle towards others, generous and loving.
She was a gifted artistic woman of many talents: acting, writing, and directing. She loved the beauty of our Lake Superior and the majestic Sleeping Giant and all of nature nourished her soul. She was a wonderful and loving daughter, sister and friend.
When it came to the people she loved and her passions she became a protector, a defender, a warrior. And of course, most certainly she loved a very good cup of coffee and would travel great lengths in the rain or sleet to get that one cup in her hands. The underlying motivation in her passions was to bring about change, spawn in all of us the desire to be more accepting and loving of one another, to nurture our understanding that everyone needs to be valued and that we all belong, and to help us be better people in a more compassionate, thoughtful society.
She loved Ghandi’s principle that as a person changes their own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards them. How she did that was not necessarily in some prominent fashion with big banners that stated so. She also did it with everyday simple encounters with others, just by being herse.