I’m sorry for the loss of your friend. If I had one month I’d take my family to Disneyland.

Wow!  It amazes me how you see people everyday…talk to them, work with them, care about them and still there is so much we don’t know about each other.  I wish there was more entries in Gary’s blogs, because as I was reading them they gave me insight into a man I never knew.  Whether you miss his music, his trivia questions or his booming laugh, there will always be an empty seat at the bottom of the stairs where we will always remember!!

Loving and Sharing. Period.

Inspiring message but sad to hear about Gary. If you’re giving us a month to have an impact and know the end is near I would say that’s very generous! If I had a month I would work even harder to “Live, Love, Learn, Leave A Legacy” – my favorite quote, by Stephen R. Covey.

Well said –

Maurilio – thanks for your post about Gary. I still can’t believe he is gone. He was a friend of mine, and I am so upset that I didn’t make that call to get together and have dinner with him as we had planned. I talked to him a few weeks back, and he told me how he’d been in the hospital, but I never realized things were that bad or thought his final day was near. I guess none of us ever do. The first time I met Gary was at a Titan’s football game when he was dressed up like a clown. That clown outfit often got him on the jumbotron, and he even made ESPN’s sports highlights. He got the biggest kick out of that. He was a great man, had an amazing sense of humor, and touched many lives. He will be missed by many, and I don’t think Gary ever truly realized how many people loved and admired him. He often said that women wouldn’t date him because of his job, and I would tell him that those women weren’t worth dating. He had allot of pride and honor, and I respected him for never taking the easy road. Some encouraged him to go the welfare route because of his medical conditions, but he would never consider that for a minute. He loved what he did and he especially loved the people he met and spoke to each day at the YMCA. He would often call me on his way home from work when he would be at the grocery check out line and express his frustration with modern technology and that it was not his favorite thing, especially when it didn’t work and talked back at you. He would call it the check-out line witch. LOL! My one hope for Gary now that he is gone is that his movie script is put in the right hands and made into a movie one day. I helped him edit it over the years, and we often laughed and talked about who he wanted to play the various characters in the movie. That would be such an amazing tribute to him. He may be gone but will never be forgotten!!!