Posted by Jim Powell on April 20, 2003 at 21:04:51 from 172.149.214.150 ac95d696.ipt.aol.com :
It's hard to believe it's been two years. I still quite often "forget" that you're gone -- I'll be faced with a long drive down a highway and I'll pick up the phone and think for a fleeting second about calling you. I'm sure many people feel the same way.
Stephen and I and your grandsons visited "Arzen" today in Forest Lawn -- Michael
Pierce let Steve know where it is. It's really odd because just down a few yards
from that place was an area that somewhat matched the sketch that my friend
Jan drew in Hawaii two years ago, when you came to her in that dream, and she
had no idea about Forest Lawn or Arzen or your walks and meditations there.
It's a small world, and perhaps a smaller universe, but despite that smallness there's still an emptiness without you there. But you're in our hearts, and as Aidan and I were walking hand in hand past the graves he said to me -- he said something about "isn't it great that we still have Grandpa Ed on video?" And I said, yes, you're right. Here's there on video, and in his writings which I read last night, and in mine and Stephen's heart every day. We went to Easter Service at the Unitarian Universalist Church today -- it brought back so many memories about you I had trouble keeping the tears from my eyes. I think Steve may've had the same experience. I thought about how the church was filled with so many people who loved you. I'm so thankful for everything you are to Stephen and I and to the lives of so many people you touched. Jim