Cousin Jeannie called at 6 am today to say that her husband Marek passed away two hours earlier. I loved this man. A Holocaust survivor who suffered unspeakable horrors as a teenager, orphaned and alone and homeless, he went on to build a life of wealth, joy, love, generosity, travel and intelligence. He was my cousin's true soulmate and a blessing to our family.
It is true, we are only dancing on this earth for a short time. And unless our talent and fate have combined in such a way that we bequeath a lasting legacy - like Abraham Lincoln or Jonas Salk - we leave only a few memories and perhaps a little of our DNA in offspring that rarely turn out to be very much like us.
So I believe we need to live our lives in the here and now. We need to do things we enjoy and never fail to embrace and cherish those we love.
Marek was a great example of exactly that...
:-(
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