DAD

Comments: I would especially like to thank everyone for all the wonderful comments. They were a JOY to read.
After having to do Len’s obituary, funeral goodbye, and the thank-you letter I should be about exhausted. Well, from crying I am, but there are still so many wonderful things to say about my son. Len always said that his Dad was his hero, but in reality we only instilled the standards of most things to him, then he raised everything to a much higher level for us to gaze upon. He fulfilled his educational dreams and continued right along with everything else that he wished to accomplish. Len could hardly wait to tell me some joke that I had not yet heard, and I’ve told plenty. Everything about me is a reminder of him and it will be tough just to ever take my bike down for another season of riding. Len would want me to do that and also lose some weight. He said that in my present condition I should be the fastest downhill coaster in the club. You’ve heard all the good things about Len yet I should add a hundred more. He was an amazingly honest and sincere FRIEND for life. I see even more love within his family and I thought that impossible as we were so closely knit. So many things accomplished – yet so much more left undone. We were so terribly close that I can’t let go, so I must suffer and hope that I can just get over this. I can not yet see far enough ahead as how to survive without my Lenny, as he is my IDOL. I’ll miss all those things we were doing together, but mostly I just miss you. I love you, Son.

Date: 2008-03-08 18:26:46