This week past (monday) a co-worker of mine past away at work. He wasn't a really close coworker nor was he just an acquaintance. Every morning we exchanged pleasant good mornings and talked about things in general. A joke here, a joke there and sometimes had to work on projects where he needed my help or I needed his. When the news finally came in from the hospital I remember not being overtly upset but still deeply phased at the reality that someone who was basically a constant in my weekly rote was now gone. I didn't find myself visibly or outwardly upset until I had to repeat his passing to a coworker that was uninformed.
I say all this simply because as the week went on and I thought of his wife and his daughter (who is to be married in the summer) and their pain and sorrow, I also thought about life and simply how short it can be. I thought do I say enough to the people I love (my wife marley9808, mom, dad, sister and all those who touch my heart) so they know and never have to question it.
Clarity, Markus and Jamar my heart and soul goes out to you for your loss, but if I know you just from the small glimpse I get when I read your trip report, there is no doubt in my mind that your friend Michelle knew how deeply intrenched in your hearts she was. And she will never be gone as long as she is always in your heart and your mind and you let people know stories about her. Its the way we touch people and they way those touched remember us that keeps us eternal and everlasting.
You are all in my thoughts and prayer.
