Remembering Josh

I can't help thinking that Josh was just with us a few years ago, and now, on his 53rd birthday his memory is with me stronger than ever. I wonder what he is doing now. I imagine him on the beach, any beach really, just taking in the beauty and rating the brilliance of the sunsets. Or I can see him with a fantastically delicious dinner right out of Bon Appetit magazine cooking in the kitchen and all of his friends and family around him smiling and laughing. Maddox was with him that year he died and was just over a year old when it happened September 2, 2007.and we tell him stories about Uncle Josh all the time. He knows all about him, and when he asks questions I feel like he is living on. When Micah gets older we will be sure to reminisce over the person Josh was and show him the pictures and tell him the stories of all the beautiful places Josh lived.

My colleague and friend Cath was just talking about a class she took that was all about Rumi. This lead me to some Google exploring and I just came across this saying that is on Rumi's tombstone; "When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men." -Rumi This is exactly where I think Josh lives on, in our hearts.