Kilby Delaney passed away on Friday night. She had been sick for a while with cancer, but she hung on for quite a long time. Up until 2 days before her passing she was posting on facebook and making plans to attend activities such as canvas painting.
Although I haven't spoken to Kilby in a while, we go way back to Osborne Street in the early 80's. This, among many other things lately, are a reminder to me that life is short and you need to live it. Sometimes life can end like it did for Kilby and Winston, and sometimes you get more chances like Randy Burrows heart attack, Mark Sambrooke's brain cancer, Paula & Jill's health scare as well as my own experiences with my liver and stomach. The bottom line is that you don't know when or how we are going to go. It reminds me of a discussion Winston & I had in high school when he quoted the old adage, "that which does not kill me makes me strong", to which I replied, "But how do you know what is going to kill you until you try it?" Life is meant to be lived and I am getting back on track with that as I start to realize that my job is not going the way I thought it would and that I never really chose this career. I am hoping to do something more fun, or at least something I can leave at the door for work in the near future.
To Kilby, I quote our old high school dumb jokes:
- Ask me if I'm a tree
- Are you a tree?
- No, why do I look like a tree?
- Your door is ajar
- No, my door is a door, a jar is a thing that you store food in!
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