My friend Tim who was the consummate older brother to me at Cal passed away on June 14, 2011, after a long fight with cancer. He leaves behind his wife Chae and daughter Lydia, the baby girl they adopted from Korea about a year ago. Even though I haven't kept in touch regularly with Tim over the years, it's somewhat surprising how devastating and grieving such news can be. I hope the words from Mary Oliver's poem "In Blackwater Woods" can be of some comfort to those who will miss him sorely:
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
Amen...
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