A good man left this world last night. Called home way too early, just four months after he got sick. We don’t know the details, but it doesn’t matter. He’s gone. PW.
PW was my neighbor at work, the first friendly face I met when I started my new job a year or so back. He was a great conversationalist, reader, musician, professional, human. PW.
He leaves behind brothers he was close to, and a wife he loved dearly. PW.
When news comes like this, there is little one can do. Acceptance is the only path to sanity. But cursing and anger and denial and sadness and a great sense of loss have to be waded our way through first. It’s thick. It’s slow. It sucks.
But on the other side?
Find your way there. You have to. I’m trying to right now.
My method is prayer and reflection and quiet and interaction with some of the folks around me. And some more prayer.
Give it up. Give it up to God. You have to. I’m trying to right now.
PW, we’ll all miss you. See you on the other side.