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Recalling something you once described to me, TC, here is a painting of the spectacular view from west Texas of innumerable stars in the night sky -- the real view must be truly awesome!!
Rest, dear Cowboy -- close your eyes and 'see' yourself back there,
lying on a mattress and sleeping bag in the back of your pickup truck.
Understand that each of those stars represents a person whose life you have touched through the years - even total strangers you passed, who recognized *Something Special* about you, and smiled inside...
Thank you, TC, for the 4 years of our friendship, linked first through common memories of our childhoods of long ago - our Marine Corps experiences - of serious discussions on many topics, as well as flights of fancy, elevating to the absolutely absurd...we lived, and laughed...
We sailed together around the world aboard ofMagog's vessel with a motley crew, inventing totally off-the-wall adventures as we went along, for a year and a half, until ofMagog put into permanent port.
We worked on a petition to abolish the TSA - you educated us all on the ins and outs of your expertise - gas/oil wells worldwide, hunkering down with sheiks in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and eating sheep's eyes - in turmoil-riddled Nigeria - Singapore - and all over the States and Gulf of Mexico.
Throughout, you showed your heart for the America founded by our forefathers, where freedom and laws and integrity, all under God, was the standard set for the Republic.
You demonstrated that with sometimes standing all alone Freeps, as well as in groups - manned a voting place during an election - often composed deeply moving patriotic tributes for our Beloved America, sending CD's to anyone who asked - and always actively support our military and veterans.
They are the reason we still stand free in an uncertain world.
You shake your head over the attention you are receiving,
but it is true that you reap what you sow..:))
Yes, my friend, close your eyes and drift off, resting in God's hands,
which is where we place you, 24/7...
~ LadyX