[Ducati] I lost a friend today

[Rich Roberts]

And I hope the Bearman passed on half of that love for life to as many as he could, that is a man's true legacy, to infect oherss with not just a love of life but a love for living in the moment at least some of the time. Godspeed Bearman. Rich

michael willinger <art-portfolio at comcast.net> wrote:  That is truely sad news ! The Bear Man sent some wisdom my way
I'm feeling your loss.


Ciao
Pick





John Whiting wrote:
> My good friend, and roomate for my 'home away from home' Houston
> business digs, died last night in the midst of celebrating the New Year.
> Bear, a bear of a man, finally succumbed to an ongoing battle with
> cardiopulmonary shortcomings from a life lived to the fullest. A true
> renaissance man, he had lived many lifetimes in his short 65 years, from
> K model harley rider out of Oakland in the 60's to running with Ken
> Kesey, Sonny Barger and Tim Leary during the Summer of Love, working
> animation for Disney to designing and building exhibits for the
> Exploratorium in SF, running cranes on offshore platforms in the middle
> east to piloting choppers in Africa, burning up Hwy 1 in his 289 Cobra
> or D-Type Jag to pulling Steve McQueen out of a wrecked sports car near
> his house, recovering from a broken back that landed him on the streets
> of Houston penniless to teaching me the art of living life Bear style
> and keeping me grounded in the landscape of my succesful business
> undertakings. He was wordly in a life lived among many tribes of Africa
> as well as the Inuit in Canada. 
>
> He was a sculptor, world class taxidermist, inventor, designer, problem
> solver, technician of all things plastics, welder extraudinaire,
> marathon joke teller, practitioner of Kharmic balance, giver to those in
> need, teacher, and: he made damn near the best cup of coffee on the
> planet.
>
> Godspeed Bear. There was never a mold there to break. You were always
> a piece of work in progress.
>
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