So long, Ralph. Save me a seat.

I learned this morning that Ralph Copleman, the former Executive Director of Sustainable Lawrence, died on January 6.

Shortly after George Gershwin died, the novelist John O’Hara wrote “”George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to”.

It may sound silly, but, aside from a deep and grinding sense of shock and loss, that’s how I feel.  When someone whom you knew for only a little over a year dies, and you feel like you’ve lost a lifelong friend, it says something more than you could read in any glowing obituary.

So I won’t say “Goodbye”. I’ll just say “So long, Ralph.  Save me a seat”.

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