Happy new year Brent and wishes for a full, speedy recovery. There are a special few people in the world who go about quietly doing what they do for the purest and simplest of reasons, hardly realizing the profound and positive impact that they have on the lives of so many other people.
The ripple effect of your work has reached across the continent and around the world, directly and indirectly touching the lives of thousands of people in so many ways, ranging from the realization of a Cobra dream, to the sharing of charity and comfort and soul saving support networks with words of wisdom, condolence and life-changing advice in times of crisis and misadventure.
You may never have intended to, but you became a gatherer of souls in a sense - pulling together an unlikely, diverse multitude of people who may otherwise never have met, shared thoughts and experiences and above all, become friends. My photo below with Gashole John Simpson officially opening diplomatic relations with St. Lucia.
Thank you.
(and Computerworks, Turk*, and the other big Armenian fellow who helps out around here sometimes... can't remember his name...)
* Gone but not forgotten
