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In typical work avoidance mode (deadlines everywhere like the cords under my desk) I clicked into Jory DesJardin's blog, Pause.

Zoom! From the laughter of Rageboy and cartoons in my past two posts, to the tears of losing a friend and mentor. It feels fitting, so right, to celebrate our emotions as they flow from our blogs.

Take a read: In Memoriam: Craig Cline, The Accidental Guru.
This bit was just... well... I don't have words. It moved me.

"The first time Craig inquired into my love life was off-putting. Why do you want to know? I said. He put down the short story draft I'd sent him a week earlier.

'Because you're not telling the whole story,' he said. 'How can you get better if you keep things to yourself?'

His assignment was to write about my most embarrassing moment, and mine was about a date. He often talked about embarrassment being a gateway to learning something about yourself. He loved hearing about the inflection points in people's lives that made them turn purple in the telling, that people even kept from themselves."

A wise man. Craig, travel well to the next world.