Day 58: Planning and ending
Karsten, Today’s just another day, waking up and you’re not here with us. Then again, you’d probably be busy planning your golf hat with...
Karsten, Today’s just another day, waking up and you’re not here with us. Then again, you’d probably be busy planning your golf hat with...
Today’s about questions. Some questions are obvious with others irrelevant and perhaps even irreverent. Most with conjectures that...
KT Man, Since the computer thieves absconded with my computers last Friday, I’ve come to realize how wrong I’ve been living. Carrying a...
KT Man, The day was spent hiking. Wandering with your momma lama in the morning and my running buddy, Tom Bob, in the afternoon....
Dogg Man, As we negotiate our way through your death and now your life with us in our souls, a different kind of negotiation occurs in...
KT, The return to the Sports Product Management program was everything you would have expected it to be. Second year students made...
Karsten, The day began with us returning to Portland. Up the Willamette Valley filled with fields of Hazelberts and grass seed. Normally,...
KT Man, As you know, I’m prone to view life through others. It’s more interesting than the command position of my own point of view. I...
KT Man, I find myself looking for you in each day and reflecting on you after each day. Yesterday. And the days just roll on, one after...
Karsten, Yesterday, I had a long conversation with someone I knew not well but came to know in the conversation. Eventually. Probably...
Karsten, It’s the first day of October and we continue to honor the end of your life with us on the outside but your presence on the...
Dogg Man, It was a KT day from the beginning. You would have been in your element. A road trip to see Mad Dogg in the borough of hills:...
KT, The day was all sun, warm, with fall bursting at the seams. No wind and clear sky. Light smoke but way better than days earlier. Not...
Dogg Man, It’s official. I’ve signed retirement papers. In three years, I must. The UO signed off for me to reduce my tenure and become...
KT, I had a dream last night which is unusual. Dreams require sleep as the doorway and I don’t sleep much. But this dream was poignant:...
KT Man, As yesterday, I’ve lingered through the emails sent following your death. They reflect the same reach of people as your...
Karsten, In the early morning I sit and quietly play with words to keep you in my life. The life of our family. I use word carvings to...
KT Man, Today’s the first day of fall quarter. New beginnings for so many. As planned, I’d be teaching. This year’s not planned. It’s...
KT Man, We met the new cohort. One year down the road from your cohort. I can see better what you were getting into. They came from all...
Karsten, I hope you don’t mind having my daily letter to you displaced by a letter to Phil and Penny Knight. I also write a letter to...