@srtwofourfour.bsky.social I took this in 2024.

@jasongooljar.org Well said and thank you.

@jasongooljar.org At this age, you had already accomplished things I never will. I never got to share in your wisdom, your guidance, or stand with you on this summit looking up at the heavens.

@jasongooljar.org I imagine we would have been very different people, but I was too young to really know you, and you never had the chance to know me.

@jasongooljar.org Tomorrow I’ll be forty‑seven. I’ve reached the summit of your passing, and looking down I think about what you saw in the years before you got here.

@jasongooljar.org Almost forgotten is the person you were. What you dreamed. What you felt. What made you cry. What made you tremble. What made you glad.

@jasongooljar.org I stand near the doorway draped in the shadow you cast, the little boy through the looking glass no longer able to see the shape of the man. A stranger to this land.

@deonandan.bsky.social And so it was written.

@jasongooljar.org Took this a couple years ago.

@jasongooljar.org Image: Kenny Holston (Getty).