Monday, May 10, 2004
the fletch factor....................
ok, so this entry will be a personal obiturary for larry fletcher, who passed away blessedly saturday night..........larry was the kind of guy whose second happier marriage made one pleased...he never had to say he was miserable in his first marriage....you just knew......so when he met the love-of-his-life.......you could not help but know it for certain, and be estatic with him........i never ran with him....but then...i do not run......rumor goes that the sun shown bright on any run that larry showed up for......the fletch factor.......if fletch came, the rain held off until he left.........my memories of larry have to do with the time between runs.......like the pound-and-peddle event.....when the 20 mile event was between farmer's bank drivethru and the morgan's then driveway............traditionally, i would drive all of the little ones down to the morgan's.....and organize the food for the potluck, and then maybe take a nap in their hammock until a bike or a runner showed up..........in the year in question.......the potluck was over, and ecw went to open the bike shop, and several of us just stayed on...on their deck....drinking beer and having a good talk about life......by the time ecw showed back up....with pizzas.... our collective children were run-amuck...and larry and i (and others.....maybe the trents...the morgans......the serres....) were sunburned on the deck.....and happy as little clams........... that was a very good day........when i think of it...now that the pound and peddle leaves from my own house, i understand that the event is not what it was.............i was honored to be invited to his second wedding.......and honored still that he remembered my daughter's major life events.........but i was perplexed when he chose treatments that were known up-front to be doomed..........gentle readers......were i told at christmas that i had 3-4 months to live......i would be on the plane to new zealand......cruising both the north and south islands, then hiking the lotr sites.........he died from the complications of treatment, not from his cancer.......i shall not knowingly go in that way.......my prayers are with his wife.....who waited until she was over 40 for the right man to come along.....he did, and now he is dead......how can i reconcile this with my personal faith.......
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