Please pass this onto camera man Brian

[Michael Sackstein]

Dear Brian:

When I was reading EricTheCarGuy’s newsletter I was not aware of your mothers passing. I was very sorry to hear the news and extend my deepest condolences to you and your family. Although she had been ill for quite sometime I gather her illness advanced quickly towards the end and I’m sure that made it all the more difficult to deal with. When my grandfather passed away, a neighbor of mine sent me the following poem offering a different perspective on our loss. I hope that you, too, will find it comforting. May you cherish good times and fond memories with your mother in years to come. At this time, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. All best wishes!

Michael Sackstein

I am standing at the seashore. SI ship at anchor spreads its white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. It is an object of beauty and strength I stand and watch it until at length it hangs like a speck of white clouds just where the sea and sky come to join with each other,
Then someone at my side says: “There, its gone.”
“Gone where?”
Gone from sight. That is all. It is just as large in mast and hull and span as it was when it left my side. It is still powerfully surging forward through the waves with the wind full in its sails.
Its diminished size is in me, not in it. Sind just at the moment when someone at my side says, “There, it’s gone!” there are other eyes watching it coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: “Here it comes!”
–Author Unknown

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