Out of Normal: Deeply painful sorrow.

April 29, 2003

Deeply painful sorrow.

Saturday night my friend Mark and I enjoyed the rare occasion of sitting down with his father and having a nice long talk about... everything and nothing. My father passed away 10 years ago and since his dad was my dads best friend, he became a surrogate father to me. Our families were very close, and we even vacationed together a few times.

I was awakened this morning by a phone call letting me know that shortly after Marks father returned home on Saturday night, that he had passed away. He had been suffering from Small Cell Carcinoma for many months, and we had noticed on Saturday just how tired he was. I thank God for the gift of the opportunity to sit down with him to BS for awhile, shortly before he was taken from us.

This is yet another moment that makes me realize just how short life is, and that we dare not waste a moment before telling those that are close to us just how much we love them.

Posted by Broch at April 29, 2003 04:37 PM

Comments

I have to say that in the time I knew Mr. Wilson and from what others at our office said (whom had known him much longer than I), he was really a most genuine and down-to-Earth man and will be sadly missed. Plus, he, like your dad, were so young. Mr. Wilson loved to talk about his car and talk trucks and liked to complain about the chinese restaurant (close to his apartment, I guess) washing all their food garbage into the parking lot drain - rat pieces, dog parts, etc. (in his words) and the smell getting over to him - but he just laughed about it all. We all noticed recently that he wasn't his usual jovial self, but tired and weaker, but seemed OK - and this was just last Thursday. I had no idea until you told me he would pass this soon - and he did. Sorry for your loss and probably see you at the visitation.

Posted by: wendel at April 29, 2003 09:38 PM

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