Friday, September 14, 2018
Sharing in your sadness, today, Ellie. I met Mike walking to school on my first day of grade 9, and we became fast friends, among a little group of us who remained 'friends-for-life'. Mike was a very special person. There was no one quite like him, even then. I learned a lot about the road with Mike, as we hitch-hiked all over the place in those days. I remember hitch-hiking with him through the US for several days in 1964 when he was going down to work on the shrimp boats in the Gulf and I was on my way to Minnesota for a job. Somehow he always made it seem an adventure rather than a trial. One-of-a-kind, he was. Our love walks with you and your family in this moment.