Still time to help out if you haven't already.

Of all the causes we've chipped in towards I think this one is the most important.

Let's give this a kickstart.

Elias stood next to me at my wedding and Kate was so pregnant she went into labor the next day

I stood at the back of the room at his funeral and Jess was so pregnant she went into labor the next day

It doesn't mean anything but I can't stop thinking that it should

I know it's only a vain attempt of mine to mitigate my own grief

the same way vomiting my emotions here is the same vain attempt to make the pain go away

but

Elias shouldn't have died

a man possessed of that caliber of character with a beautiful wife and 2 sweet little babes shouldn't be dead

there is no reason for it

I once brought back the same piece of shit junkie from cold blue gutter death twice in the same day

but

Elias doesn't get the same make the beast with two backsing courtesy...that is just make the beast with two backsed up

I can't get angry enough to make this any better

nor sad enough, accepting enough, or read enough victor frankl

its just make the beast with two backsed up

but as angry as I may be and as sad as I am, as much as my chest is tight and my breath is hitched

I can't cry over the guy

I can't find a single moment in the last decade where his goofy ass cherub grin doesn't make me smile

I want to cry

to somehow ease the tension

I think about Kate's face as I walked into that funeral and I want to sob like a lost bear cub

Then I start thinking about some adventure we went on or some project that we more than likely make the beast with two backsed up and then fixed with epoxy and duct tape and I am make the beast with two backsing grinning and chuckling 20 min later

who does that to a guy?

So to you Elias I say thank you for all the blue highway adventures, drunken philosophy at dawn, and that one time everyone pooled their money to get my Jeep out of hock...we will all do our best to help out Kate and the babes and enjoy our memories of you

Only a week or so left. Please try to find it in yourself to help out.

http://www.youcaring.com/other/help-a-young-family-that-lost-a-father/119016

Another bump.

I only met Elias once.  When he and Mother had an epic adventure to Ouray.

He was a pretty cool cat.