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Thank you from Maki
My dad was awesome. The most noble, kind, intelligent and gentle man I ever knew, he was always on my side and always fully believed that I will find my way. He always made that clear, and even though he hasn’t been around for a while, his absence obvious in everything. Many would think of this as…
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Memorial #1
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin This was a quote that our chaplain Derek offered up as he spoke about Vernon the other night. I keep thinking about it, as well as the other wonderful things that were shared about Vernon’s…
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Starman
Here is an except from a letter that Vernon’s eloquent mother wrote about him last week: “Our dearest Vernon has passed to a life without pain, dialysis, feeding tubes, parched throat and not always remembering what he wanted to say or how to express himself and many things besides.. Oh the frustration he must have…
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Super Bloom
Vanessa, Vernon’s only sister, has been in town since Thursday, thrown right into the loving chaos of friendships and planning our event. Of course everyone wants to meet “Vernon’s sister.” It’s been very special time with her, and I’m sure she can see a lot of her teenaged brother in his son. Vernon’s parents were unable to make…
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Justine’s Words of Love and Comfort
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.” — Rabindranath Tagore Justine saw me sitting by myself this morning as we were preparing the garden for our upcoming party. She started telling me the most beautiful words of comfort from her six year old heart. “Do you mind…
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Pictures of You
As a family, I think we are trying to consolidate the Vernon we knew over the past two and a half years to the Vernon we had as a father before that. We have already grieved so much of our loss. But now that it’s the “season of remembrance,” its been interesting to think about the…
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Memorial Season
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” Leonard Bernstein It’s very important to me to mark the ten-year milestone of our marriage. After all, we ALMOST made it. It felt longer than ten years anyway, so I think we deserve the credit. (For some reason, a ten…
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NewTypography
My dad wrote a great blog-post of his own today about Vernon’s professional life. I invite you to take a look at it here, it might help explain a few things. Typography is very specialized field, so it’s been nice to get response from some of his colleagues in these past days. I see his…
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Emotions
Emotions come in waves. Waves that push me back gently to the shore, exhausted and waterlogged after going so far out with Vernon. If I make the mistake of stopping to think, I feel the sadness and confusion and start crying or else if I go go go, I’ll get tired and in a moment of…
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The Ocean
Over the past couple of weeks, as we approached the end of Vernon’s life, I kept thinking about the Ocean. Lets think of it the un-earthy world that it is—something vast and strange and powerful, the home to fantastic creatures without lungs. The final frontier. A place that humans enjoy playing on the edges and on the surface…