Good Bye - Update in Post 1

I saw this early this morning. I couldn't figure out how to reply.

But ultimately felt that I had to.

I don't know that YogiBear will ever see this. It doesn't mater. He has said his piece, full throated.

To him, I wish Godspeed, and peace, and grace, and strength. I wish the same and more to his family.

More though I think that, the idea that one of this community, so near facing his end, with the clarity of that, unclouded by the minutia of the daily grind, chose to include us at this time, is both a testament to his own strength and character, and to the uniqueness of what we have here.

Thinking of you now YogiBear. :(
 
Prayers for you, family and friends. Losing a shooting/hunting buddy always brings to mind Ernest Hemingway's eulogy for his friend Gene Van Guilder;

"He loved the warm sun of summer and the high mountain meadows, the trails through the timber and the sudden clear blue of the lakes," Hemingway wrote. "He loved the hills in the winter when the snow comes. Best of all he loved the fall ... the fall with the tawny and grey, the leaves yellow on the cottonwoods, leaves floating on the trout streams and above the hills the high blue windless skies. He loved to shoot, he loved to ride and he loved to fish. Now those are all finished. But the hills remain.........and now he will be a part of them forever."

full eulogy here- Fugue 38 - Winter/Spring 2010 (No. 38) by University of Idaho Library - Issuu
 
What wonderful technology that allows virtual stranger in many cases, bound by common interest, to become friends and share in life's milestones which we all must pass through - Godspeed Yogibear - your August is upon you and this group honors you.

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May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again.
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.


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