Tuesday, December 13, 2022
From 1962 to 1966, Don and I attended Brunskill Primary School's "smart kids" program together. When we reconnected many years later, his memories of those days were a source of amazement and admiration - he had a writer's gift for meaningful details of people and events that I had long forgotten. His stories had a quality of amused understanding of the human situation, with compassion and kindness. ("The Perfection of His Failure", "Coyote"...) My life has been made richer by knowing this fine man, and made poorer by his loss. Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale...
