Sunday, January 07, 2007

Missing My Larry

It was a year ago today that we got the startling news of the death of our buddy Larry Brickman (from what turned out to be a freak case of bacterial meningitis). It still doesn't feel real and I'm beginning to wonder if it ever does. The grief is real, but it still feels like he's in SF for grad school and will come buzzing my apartment any day now. Is this just an extended period of denial? (I'm not sure.) If you can see this, Lar, just know how much I miss you and would love nothing more than to see you again. Your friendship means meant the world to me.


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  • 5 comments:

    Anonymous said...

    Hi Kenneth - love the Blog. Not sure whether you should have crossed out the mean and put meant - he is still your friend and he will still be able to guide you.......cross out the t

    Anonymous said...

    A friend of mine in Chicago went to SF about 3 years ago and came back and died a few days later also from bacterial meningitis. It created quite a stir amongst the gay community and the health dept gave free bacterial mengitis vaccines to anyone who wanted it. The vaccine lasts 10 years or so and I recommend everyone get one.

    Lavi Soloway said...

    Thank you for writing about Larry. It is so wonderful to hear his name recalled, see his smile again think about him in the context of the friends that loved him. Larry's death was so shocking, there is really no way I can think of to process it. I didn't expect to have a death in my family in 2006, but since that happened at the end of September, I have been struck by how difficult it is to lose someone you love. So maybe it's not exactly denial, Kenneth, but more a reflection of how profound and overwhelmingly final death of a loved one is. I now feel that a death that tears a person out of our lives is too much to comprehend even years later.

    Anonymous said...

    We Miss You Larrrr!

    em

    Anonymous said...

    Death can be difficult, especially for us still living and missing those who have left. But death is simply moving to the other side that is full of beauty, peace and wonderful love.

    The love of my life left his life last Summer. As difficult as it still is, I know that he is in a very good place. It's a place that he welcomed in either young or old age.

    My love was white, but he practiced his love of God through his hindu faith. He introduced me to the OM and other aspects of his faith, which I know all spiritual faiths lead to God and that wonderful place on the Other Side.

    Seeing Larry's t-shirt with the OM (hindu symbol invoking God the creator of the Universe) tells me that Larry is in a very good place.