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A Celebration of Rich: Tributes
Aloysius J. Gleek:
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I'm so glad you have found and posted the group shot, Chuck. What a lovely evening--after a great dinner at Bone Lick Park on Greenwich Avenue, just before some of us (including Rich!) headed over to the Stonewall, and some headed home (Jeff had to run to catch his train)--
We looked COLD! and we looked very, very happy. It was Valentine's Day 2009 (well, the weekend of ).
Rich was so tall!
Happy thoughts, sad thoughts, odd thoughts intermingled.
Me, I am not a 'believer,' and I do not even LIKE C.S. Lewis. Anyway, for whatever reason, though, this came unbidden--
“The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world; but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God: a few moments of happy love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with our friends, a bathe (swim) or a football match, have no such tendency. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasure inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home”
(C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, 116).
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Rest in peace, Rich Wilson, rest in peace.
Shakesthecoffecan:
Rich had a phenomenal memory, his Mom said he could remember conception.
Early on in our conversation he recalled going to a Zoo and riverboat in the time before his father came into his life. I knew the place, the Dan River Queen and Circle M Zoo, and in 2008 was able to take him back there. Here he is on the deck of the remains of the boat:
Shakesthecoffecan:
I remember the last time we all got together at Fairystone. Me and Rich were going to the airport in Gene's car, which he had broke the mirror on that morning in my driveway, and decided to pull a prank on Check and Paul and Lynne.
They did not know he had come up the night before, so I called Chuck and told him "I'm not sure Rich is going to make it, he can't find any gas in Atlanta" (which was having sortages at that time). Then he beeps in on Chuck and tells him the same thing, by which time we are in the airport, watching them from a distance. Lynne is on her crackberry looking for gas stations that are open in ATL. It was so funny.
Lynne:
--- Quote from: shakesthecoffeecan on August 25, 2010, 11:26:37 am ---I remember the last time we all got together at Fairystone. Me and Rich were going to the airport in Gene's car, which he had broke the mirror on that morning in my driveway, and decided to pull a prank on Check and Paul and Lynne.
They did not know he had come up the night before, so I called Chuck and told him "I'm not sure Rich is going to make it, he can't find any gas in Atlanta" (which was having sortages at that time). Then he beeps in on Chuck and tells him the same thing, by which time we are in the airport, watching them from a distance. Lynne is on her crackberry looking for gas stations that are open in ATL. It was so funny.
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That's a good memory, Truman. He laughed so hard and if I recall, harder, the more 'outraged' I acted at being so put out. :laugh:
Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: Lynne on August 25, 2010, 12:14:54 pm ---That's a good memory, Truman. He laughed so hard and if I recall, harder, the more 'outraged' I acted at being so put out. :laugh:
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And you have been there waiting since 2 AM.
I think there may still be some of that Makers mark about under the cabinet.....
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