Happy Birthday, Dave.
I haven’t known you as long as all of
the others who are posting here, so the good old family stories can’t really
apply. Jill said “funny” stories. Hmmm. My stories about you would be more
characterized as “sweet.” You are a
gentle spirit. In the 17 years or so that I have known you, I have never seen
you be anything but really kind, tolerant and interested in others—especially
your family. I’m sure you have your
goofball stories with them…but I’ll honor your 75th from a slightly
different perspective.
To me, I celebrate you as a consistently good sport, a deep
thinker, an aesthete, a great cook, and always an enjoyable companion. I am so
appreciative of the myriad of times I have tagged along with you and Jean, and
the time when you drove to Mayo to be with me after my surgery. Of course there
was the time you brought me home from a colonoscopy, too. I notice and
appreciate your keen interest in and commitment to the kids that you volunteer
with, and the real respect and involvement that you had/have with your own mom
and kids, since I have known you. I actually have enjoyed our conversations
about anxiety and the mysteries of the mind. I’m sure we will have more as we
get older and face even more mysteries!
I wish you the best of birthdays and many, many more. I am
very happy to be in your life.
Love,
Sue Cook
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