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Day 2544: Day After Day
KT, August 14 is not just another day. It is a day that jarred our lives of their normal orbit. For 7 years now we have approached this...

Gerald Tindal
Aug 141 min read
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Day 2463: Measurement of Time
Dogg Man, Â Incomprehensible to move forward and impossible to stay in the past. So, we measure time only in the moment and that is where...

Gerald Tindal
May 112 min read
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Day 2189: Present and Presence Separated by No Longer
KT, It’s that time of year: The day you moved into our life differently. No longer with your daily call to Mama Lama. No longer with your...

Gerald Tindal
Aug 14, 20242 min read
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Day 2098: Remembering A Life Well Lived
KT, It’s been over 2,000 days since your death: 2098 to be exact, though being vague is probably much better. You would have been 34...

Gerald Tindal
May 13, 20242 min read
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Day 1825: An Ounce of Hope and a Ton of Remembrance
KT Man, Five years is a long time and then it isn't. So, the calendar is warped, and it’s been 1,825 days since yesterday. We have you...

Gerald Tindal
Aug 14, 20232 min read
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Day 1732: Two Sides of Time and Life
KT, SevBeanz and I wrote this in honor of you, for the Karsten Tindal Leadership award given to an outstanding student in the Sports...

Gerald Tindal
May 13, 20232 min read
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Day 1460: Seasons
KT, Four years ago, summer became a burden though we are beginning to shake its grip, August 14 being the worst day of the season. Oregon...

Gerald Tindal
Aug 14, 20221 min read
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Day 1367: Time Was When…
KT, I wrote this on Mother’s Day because you were a Mother’s Day baby. I posted on your birthday because the day of reckoning intervened...

Gerald Tindal
May 13, 20222 min read
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Day 1228: Christmas Dec. 25, 2021
KT, This is Christmas number four without you. Thank you for giving the us the best gift ever: Your presence in our life. Far too brief...

Gerald Tindal
Dec 24, 20211 min read
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Day 1095: Loss is not Absence
Karsten KT DoggMan: August 14, 2021, will be 3 years since your death and by now over 100+ letters have been posted. We continue to...

Gerald Tindal
Aug 14, 20216 min read
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Day 1002: Another Orbit Around the Sun
Karsten KT DoggMan: We’ve passed the 1,000 day mark. Today you would have been 31 years old. Such a young age. Yes, another year and yes...

Gerald Tindal
May 13, 20212 min read
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Day 834: The Long Struggle of Beanz
On May 17, 2019 I first heard from Sev and LT that indeed, her earlier biopsy indicated stage 2 cancer. I was in Harrisburg PA and...

Gerald Tindal
Nov 26, 20202 min read
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Day 730: A Moment
Today is not just the day that you died two years ago, but the day that life became just a moment. When time past, present, and future...

Gerald Tindal
Aug 14, 20202 min read
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Day 637: Birthdays and Celebrations
KT, Today is May 13, 2020. You would have been 30 years old. Grief is a terrible master. Equally dire on both sides. Unable to move...

Gerald Tindal
May 13, 20202 min read
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Day 365: Surrealist and Realist
Karsten-KT It has been 365 days since you died: August 14, 2018. At the time, our life changed in a way that was and is irrevocable and...

Gerald Tindal
Aug 14, 20193 min read
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Day 272: Uncertainty
KT Man, Today is May 13, 2019. You would have been 29 years old. We plan to celebrate your life rather than your birth. And we plan to do...

Gerald Tindal
May 13, 20193 min read
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Day 217: Reflection on Graduation
KT, The day began with sunshine as seems to be the case with you. Not only were you always able to park up front but also could bring out...

Gerald Tindal
Mar 19, 20192 min read
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Day 216: The Mourning of Graduation
Karsten, It’s all so very sad but we are determined to hold our heads high and move forward. Your day has arrived and you aren’t here. We...

Gerald Tindal
Mar 18, 20191 min read
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Day 213: About to Graduate
KT Man, Lest you think we forgot about you, it’s simply not possible. Not having written since Christmas is a function of stemming the...

Gerald Tindal
Mar 15, 20192 min read
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Day 133: Our first Christmas
Karsten, This is our first Christmas without you. We’d been warned by wise people, friends who know, that these kind of events have their...

Gerald Tindal
Dec 25, 20182 min read
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