Lorraine and Cliff From BC. 12/31/2005
Old friends from Canada by way of Kona. Back in June, Cliff emailed that Lorraine had died in April. I should have emailed back promptly. But, I didn’t. Today, I found a nice picture of them in my catalog. Wrote a nice email. Sent it on its way and immediately got: Your message wasn’t delivered because the address couldn’t be found, or is unable to receive mail.
Well. Shit. I knew that he wouldn’t have changed his email. A quick search finds Cliff’s obituary. He died in August. Did Cliff die wondering why I didn’t answer his email? No. Do I regret not taking the time to answer promptly? Yes.
I was going through my “emails to answer” pile by the oldest first. Cliff’s was the first one I answered. You better believe that I answered every single email in my “to answer” folder this afternoon.
The Twilight Zone
When you are old most of your friends are old too. Remember “Nobody is promised tomorrow”. Not you. Not your friends.
