<html>
<body>
Hi Sunny<br><br>
We join you in celebrating the completed life of your father. Mine also
would have preferred the pine box had one been available (and the rest of
the family had not rebelled). Anyway your note provides a glimpse into
his unique life, and we know you will miss him.<br><br>
John Epps<br><br>
At 04:44 PM 9/5/2012, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2 color="#000080">
Someone is being kept quite busy “up there” – and no, I’ve not gone over
to the dark side. I simply enjoy some of the old 2-story images on
occasion and the death of my thoroughly agnostic, yet brilliant father
who made sure I didn’t really believe in it either is one of them.<br>
<br>
Dad, at 97 (after 70 years of marriage) finally let go around midnight
last night. I re-read JWM’s “The Time My Father Died.” I can’t remember
if I’d shared it with Dad, but I know he would have gotten quite the bang
out of the pine box story. He would have preferred a pine box as well, if
we weren’t allowed to simply roll him into a ditch and be done with
it.<br>
<br>
I imagine few of you would have known him as he only came with Mom to one
Summer program (might have been the big one in ’84) and cheerfully did
his duty setting the Great Hall for breakfast. He’d, on his own, read
most of the “greats” of our history and maintained a disciplined, albeit
rather stoic (or perhaps just west Texas stubborn) attitude throughout
his life. I miss him and certainly celebrate all he passed on to me and
our family.<br>
<br>
Blessings to Lynda and her family on a dad whose picture reminded me of
mine and who I can imagine kicking up his heels with mine now in the
“great beyond.”<br>
<br>
Bye Dad.<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Viner Hand ITC" size=5 color="#000080"><i>Sunny<br>
</i></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#000080"> <br>
</font><font face="Calibri" color="#000080">Sunny Walker <br>
SunWalker Enterprises<br>
303-587-3017 (cell)<br>
303-671-0704 (home/office)<br>
<a href="mailto:sunwalker@comcast.net">sunwalker@comcast.net</a><br>
Aurora, CO<br>
</font><font size=2 color="#000080"> <br>
</font><font face="Pristina" color="#800080">No mattter how far you've
gone down the wrong road, turn back. ~ Turkish Proverb<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"> <br>
</font>_______________________________________________<br>
Dialogue mailing list<br>
Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net<br>
<a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net" eudora="autourl">
http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net</a>
</blockquote></body>
</html>