This is an informative, touching article on how you deal with grief and balance that and bipolar. Snowy's photos bring the viewer right into the moment. Letter writing is a lost art. You reminded me of camp days from many decades past.
Thanks for sharing this David. I found this article incredibly helpful. I didn’t know Snowy but you certainly honor the friendship in your writing of him here! Love from your cousin Donna.
Dave, I love all the truths here. Camp friends are unique. I just would like to say, as someone who was always up for a fun adventure, Snowy would have loved that you went to the amusement park the day before his memorial. Peace be with you as you grieve and navigate the future.
I've thought a lot about Snowy since his death, and I was only a "camper-by-marriage". I actually met him long before I met Howard but I can honestly say he was at every house party, our wedding, our return to Barbados on our 5th anniversary, the opening of cafe, many visits to cafe in the year before his death...he contacted me for a recipe for our "crack pancakes" as he wanted to impress a local bartender friend that he could get the recipe. I was then responsible for emptying the furniture at his families home. I had a lot of time to think about him, and why he slipped thru our fingers.
I'm sorry for your pain, your diagnosis won't be easy as I have family members with it...but working thru your thoughts and feelings, and fb anxiety may be a solid start. How you feel is how many feel, but you are braver than most and make it public. I hope your efforts both help you, and those folks in that group that you speak of. We all cancel, and then we all run out of time...some sooner than others.
This is an informative, touching article on how you deal with grief and balance that and bipolar. Snowy's photos bring the viewer right into the moment. Letter writing is a lost art. You reminded me of camp days from many decades past.
Thanks for sharing this David. I found this article incredibly helpful. I didn’t know Snowy but you certainly honor the friendship in your writing of him here! Love from your cousin Donna.
Dave, I love all the truths here. Camp friends are unique. I just would like to say, as someone who was always up for a fun adventure, Snowy would have loved that you went to the amusement park the day before his memorial. Peace be with you as you grieve and navigate the future.
I've thought a lot about Snowy since his death, and I was only a "camper-by-marriage". I actually met him long before I met Howard but I can honestly say he was at every house party, our wedding, our return to Barbados on our 5th anniversary, the opening of cafe, many visits to cafe in the year before his death...he contacted me for a recipe for our "crack pancakes" as he wanted to impress a local bartender friend that he could get the recipe. I was then responsible for emptying the furniture at his families home. I had a lot of time to think about him, and why he slipped thru our fingers.
I'm sorry for your pain, your diagnosis won't be easy as I have family members with it...but working thru your thoughts and feelings, and fb anxiety may be a solid start. How you feel is how many feel, but you are braver than most and make it public. I hope your efforts both help you, and those folks in that group that you speak of. We all cancel, and then we all run out of time...some sooner than others.
Keep writing, it's important work.