The Friday Fives

haven’t blogged for a few weeks. On March ,my long-time blog buddy, blog reader Kevin Lang, known on these pages by my tens of readers as “Lono,” lost his hard-fought 14-month battle with Leukemia.

For decades, my Thursday evening/Friday morning began with sending this week’s Friday Fives questions to Kevin, who would then answer them and post them on his own blog.

For the last few weeks, taking on the task of gathering a few questions to post and then posting them to my blog felt like an empty task without first sending them off to his home near Elizabeth/Exuban Parker.

We all miss him terribly, and although we all knew the end was nearing when he decided to go into pain management and hospice care after an unsuccessful bone marrow transplant, many, many attempts of chemo and radiation, and unsuccessful drug trials.

A wise kid I have working for me, but Kevin’s passing in a very succinct way to handle the loss: “they may be gone, but not lost, as their story isn’t finished until those that carry the memory are/”

And that is the way I am holding on to my lost brother.

We will meet again, Kevin.

Shalom.