Passings

Learned in the past two days of the deaths of two not-real-close friends - friendly business associates, really.  One was the guy whose company rented and serviced my water softener.  He was a real earthy, solid American type guy with whom, for some reason, I really hit it off.  I would hang in the garage while he worked on our machine, and he didn't even charge me extra for helping.  His wife sent me a nice note saying he'd appreciated my business over the years, and offering to sell me the water softener for three months' rent.

The other was Annejee Combs who was my Safeway contact for many years.  She had Type 1 diabetes, had had a kidney transplant, and when I finally talked her into coming to Kris' center, really wasn't interested.  We'd heard that she continued to have trouble, left Safeway, and her obit says she died last Thursday at 52.

Yet another friend, Caralee, Ben's wife, has been diagnosed with a type of leukemia.  She's embarked on a combination of holistic and traditional treatments.