Ponderings…. I’ll see you Thursday

When someone passes away, it is common to re-live the final moments you spent with them, mulling them over in your mind until every moment is immortalized forever, as if preserving the very essence of the person you lost. This week, I have been mulling over the last interaction I had with a colleague of mine, Carl Painter, who died suddenly on Wednesday of last week.  I had known Carl for about four years, and in that time, I learned a modest amount of things about him. I will not embellish the relationship to be more than it was; we were not exceptionally close – we rarely saw one another outside of work, but there was a friendliness and respect that four years working together had bu