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I feel for your loss.

Back in ’91 lost a good friend, he was actually my age within a few days.  Rich man, poor man thing, along with pounding a ton of T-posts and pulling and stringing thousands of feet worth of barbed wire, I was turning into a bit of caretaker for his 640 acre Colorado “get away” and future retirement home, and we were becoming closer with every season, since we clicked.  Guess I was a pleasant change from his Phoenix crowd.  The future was looking bright.  Then he left a Phoenix party once, something happened and 5 minutes later his wife drove by a hideous accident only to find his sports car in the middle of it.  Heart breaking, life shattering, yet we  keep going.  Like Kobe healthy, fit, rich, 36yr old, one moment there, then gone.  Dreams and plans, puff, it’s over.  Wife loved the place, but it was his, down to the genuine rodeo arena he welded up with my assistance, and all the work, and his dreamed of cows and more horses.  Cascading consequences all over the place.

Irony of irony a year later we moved out of the area, then by pure happenstance I wind up moving back to the area 8/9 years ago and am living in place where, when I’m on top of landlord’s roof, I can see his one time property and my fences a couple miles to the west of my current home.   Never looks like much is happening there other than some hay growing.

As for the other about Kobe, he was a sports jock supreme, in that crowd it seems like scumbag moves against vulnerable woman, or silly woman, is part of their macho mentality and growing process.   Trust me I’m not raising him to godhood the way others are, just noticing what a shame, what a waste.

One of those thought provoking, memory awakening, happenings.

And like I said were I at home, I’d have barely noticed, but alas I’m here in this reality right now.  Hell, I earlier today I took a closer look at a picture on a wall with a young grandmother and a black guy.  Never paid much attention to it.  Today I looked closer, dang if it ain’t a young Kobe Bryant.  Here’s a little gossip, she’s a long time double season ticket, but her husband has long passed.  She sold one of her seats for tonight’s memorial and Lakers game for 4,400 saw bucks.  I’m assured they’re good seats, worth it they say.  Me, I cannot fathom that world.