We remember... in 2010

[Rockstar]

Oh come on, remembering 2010 by listing a bunch of dead people. Don't you people have a life of your own?

For me 2010 will be remembered when my wife and I traveled from the Maritime Provinces to the out island in the Bahamas. Bare pole in storms, speeding along at 9kts under a full and well trimmed sail plan, or motoring in the calms.

Skinny dipping in the warm turquoise waters of the south. Diving, fishing and having a cookout on the beach. Learning to plan life around the tides and weather rather than an alarm clock. Exploring the Chesapeake Bay and learning more about U.S. history in four months than what anyone would in four years of college. Navigating in thick fog up in Maine. Hiking the Acadia trails. Building bonfires on Hell's Half Acre to cook up lobster.

Meeting new people, a rescue, sharing meals, making friends all who happened to be very alive and well. We will remember 2010, it was a wonderful time to be amongst the living.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Oh come on, remembering 2010 by listing a bunch of dead people. Don't you people have a life of your own?

On the contrary when we remember the dead we honor their lives and thus gain a bit more appreciation of our own. It's a sobering reminder to our own mortality. That by acknowledging our own frailty and mortality we are reminded to live better and to treat other people with deserving respect and appreciate what time has been given to us.

There's a saying here that it's better to give remembrance to someone's death than going to party.

[kranz]

I have heard about the death of John DuPont coz I'm using one of theirs teflon oils to lubricate my bicycle's chain. I hope I've fed your "Americocentrical hunger"

[Gerald]

In this case, it is unlikely to do with to provide our friends across the Atlantic with the news, unless you have a very different view, the item was about them that we appreciated!

[Lionclaw]

Stephen J. Cannell

1941 - 2010

R.I.P.

[Gerald]

He was a good man, RIP!