Great celebration for Dawns 50th Birthday Celebration but now I must face reality. My heart is yet again, broken. Brad, that first day you put me on the water in a river with rapids far beyond my experience and skill changed how I felt about myself forever. Changed how I felt about taking risks. If someone would have told me Id fall out of the raft in churning rapids Id have said, well if that happens tell my kids I loved them, but at the moment I did fall, it was like Id been on the river forever. I put my feet first and felt my way out from under the raft to find your paddle held out for me to grab on to. I went back into that raft laughing. My heart wasnt pounding and I had no fear of dying in that river. In fact, I was laughing!!!! (Im not so sure that Donna Reynolds Marshall and Heather Mateyka Florczak found it so funny) It was at that moment that I knew there was nothing I shouldnt try, no fear I shouldnt confront head on, because somehow, someway, Ill know what to do to find my way out from under the dark churning water and find someone with a paddle waiting to pull me to safety. Your spirit filled me that day and its never left. Two more times that year we got on the river, one of them with my children. I knew that memory was going to be precious, but now more than ever. That same trip we shared Christmas dinner and many nights listening to the beautiful sounds of your harmonica. I am so blessed to have known you, albeit for a time way to short, but I am even more blessed to have had my kids experience their first time rafting with you. Knowing that they enjoyed your music, your spirit, your soul. You were a gift to us all and I will miss you forever. RIP my friend. XOXO
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 02:04:36 +0000
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