I thought that I would try to reconnect with a doctor friend I had known for 15 years. I hadn't spoken to him since the pandemic. We'd had a number of meetings and he helped me on a number of both personal and business issues. In 2009 at the nadir of the recession, he suggested I begin an analytical service, and I did work on that for a while. I managed to get a job as an analyst that worked out instead.

I searched for him and got his LinkedIn profile after a phone call came back as being disconnected. I wrote him another note on LinkedIn. However, when I had done the search, the word "obituary" popped up. I went back to Google and put obituary back in and, sure enough, there it was. Prostate cancer got to him ahead of me. Still, there was his shining smiling face. He was a year younger than me, so I feel like lightening has struck again, and again, too close for comfort. It's sad to see parts of one's life drop away, only to be remembered from here on. ".... like tears in the rain."