One year later

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since our friend passed away as a result of Glioblastoma multiformes. I’d never heard of it before; it is an aggressive form of brain cancer and it took him from us in the blink of an eye.

Rob died June 8th 2007

Rob’s brother read the following at his memorial:

What Cancer Cannot Do
Cancer is so limited
It cannot cripple love
It cannot shatter hope
It cannot corrode faith
It cannot destroy peace
It cannot kill friendship
It cannot suppress memories
It cannot silence courage
It cannot invade the soul
It cannot steal eternal life
It cannot conquer the spirit

When we lose someone in our lives, it is so easy to focus on that loss and the unfairness of it. But as time passes I realize that it is more important to recall the good memories, they will never be taken away.

I remember one night we were boating together. Our two boats were rafted together up Indian Arm. KC (the dog) had to go to shore. Rob hauled her out of their sailboat and into the dinghy. He put on a head lamp we loaned him and off he went into the dark. A short while later he brought her back. Getting KC back in the boat proved more difficult than getting her out. He heaved her up, but he hadn’t tied off the dinghy and all of a sudden KC landed solidly in the cockpit of the boat, the light flashed wildly and there was a large splash. Rob? Where did he go? Into the drink. We laughed so hard and for so long.

It has made me realize more keenly that what we have can disappear so quickly that we simply must appreciate the gifts life presents us every single day.

You will always be missed Rob. Fair winds…..