Passings

I appreciate this thread being made a sticky. It seems so obvious now with hindsight that Flow knew his time was drawing to a close. And this thread shows how much he valued life. His appreciation for the human spirit was noble and loving right up to the end.

The WWW gives each of us the opportunity to achieve a little immortality. It captures some essence of ourselves in our words on places like this and leaves them pinned there for others to discover and revisit. You need not be a great and famous person and have hard volumes printed to remain alive in your words and thoughts these days. We are lucky. We can deliver value, insight, tragedy, comedy, love and much more out into the electronic ether to live long after we are gone. Flow did so...and he lives!

tao
 
juantoo3 said:
This thread is so much more poignant to me now that our dear Flow is gone...
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I get the same feeling. Some of you may now know of a local musician around here. She died before her time. Very little recognition during her lifetime. A few months after she passed a local radio station and some of her friends put together a two hour tribute using recordings picked up at local gigs and those she tried to get a recording contract with.

I was building an addition on my mothers house as the tribute rolled on and memories flowed. Then they played Somewhere over the Rainbow, I had to sit down, listening to her voice from the beyond was more than I could take.

This song is for you flow...
 
Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine said:
For those more into scifi/fantasy, he was Khan in the Star Trek series and the Star Trek movie Wrath of Khan.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
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Indeed, perhaps the role he was best known for, yet he was a multi-talented actor. More important in my opinion, is that he was "class" personified. He was also well known for his recurring role as Mr. Rourke on Fantasy Island, but he played many many bit parts and walk ons throughout the '60's, '70's and '80's, you never knew where he would turn up as a guest star.
 
juantoo3 said:
Indeed, perhaps the role he was best known for, yet he was a multi-talented actor. More important in my opinion, is that he was "class" personified. He was also well known for his recurring role as Mr. Rourke on Fantasy Island, but he played many many bit parts and walk ons throughout the '60's, '70's and '80's, you never knew where he would turn up as a guest star.
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Verdad, juantoo3. Verdad.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
Paul Harvey passed away. Perhaps little known outside of America, but he was a radio icon in the US for many years. He will be missed.
 
I don't know how this managed to slip past me:

March 24, 2009; Sir Arthur Clarke, who has died aged 90, was, for many, synonymous with science fiction, and in particular with 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick's film of his novella The Sentinel; his principal gifts, however, were his ability to popularise science and his genius as one of the most prophetic voices of the space age.
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Sir Arthur C Clarke - Telegraph
 
My friend Ron Shreck died on the fourth of July. He was 64. Ron was a PT boat captain in Vietnam. He saw a lot of action running up and down the Mekong. Ron got shot up pretty good over there. He told me he had come to believe that the Norse Gods of his ancestry would welcome him to Valhalla with the rest of the warriors when he passed. I hope he was right.

So long Ron.

Chris
 
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