Well, I’m a fan of your work. :-)
You know, Sion never gave me the impression of any suffering.
He was such a strong man.
*HUGs LoM*
Thanks for sharing him with us. :-)
Thank you all for your kind characterization of my beloved late husband, Sionn. He always put a bright face on things even if inside he was torn apart. Sionn did not have an easy life. Some of you know whereof I write. Besides the suffering common to both of us, Sionn bore a personal, private burden few ever saw. I caught glimpses of it from time to time. Then there were the health issues (spastic diaphragm, irritable bowel sydrome, hypertension and high cholesterol woes, perennial stress mostly from the idiocies of our State Legislators and the killer travel regime.
Despite all that, my beloved soldiered on in many arenas, mostly as a peace maker, an architect of consensus (which is sometimes nigh to impossible in engineering standards circles across many cultural paradigms. Sionnsar was the quick witted, kind, generous and compassionate soul many looked to for advice, solace and understanding. The only person he shorted was himself. Nag and cajole as I did (too often it seems) he didn’t follow my suggestions.
Ultimately he fell under the load, like the sculpture in Rhodin’s garden titled “Fallen Caryatid.” He took a stunning photograph of it on his last trip through Paris in mid May. I wish I had been more in tune with his failing heart. Mine now fails from missing him.
UTers are my family now. Thank God for Free Republic.