Sunday, December 8, 2019
My favorite time with Michael was the last time we were together, just a few years ago we shared a beer on the patio of his old Tacoma home. We spoke of the future as much as of the past. He was happy and himself. But now I remember other wise forgotten times of just being together; Seeing him cook in the campus HUB; our light show company from high school, The magic latern light show. Other times were unforgetable , like going back to college in Claremont by way of Reno; we narrowly missed hitting a car at night on the dessert highway; when we got to Reno, we gambled all night. When Michael was in grad school I gave him a hot tip for his pretend stock portfolio; but it was he and his family who helped me. Mike's parents gave me job out of college when no one else would. I am forever grateful. Mike's mom always treated me as one of her own kids. No one of us can forget when I showed up in L.A. ; Michael, Cec and I went to the Grateful Dead at Pauly pavillion. I still tell the stories. I always enjoyed seeing Micheal at the CWA reunions. The meaning of life involves evolving one's own soul through multiple life times and helping to evolve the soul of humanity; clearly Michael has done both.
