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(sorry this is long and will take several posts - but worth it)
He was smart.
I remember picking him up from Bishop Moore after he took the SAT. He said “Dad, The Math was kind of hard, but I got everything right on the verbal”.
I laughed and told him, yeah, right, no one does that. But he did.
He worked these logic puzzle books for fun. He had a powerful intellect. It carried him through a degree from Rollins even as his illnesses had begun to make school very hard.
He was a writer.
Tim loved writing. He loved the English language.
He was good.
A Rollins professor wrote a letter of recommendation for grad school and said that Tim was the best writer he had seen in 20 years of teaching.
He was a great editor too. He edited a few things for me over the years and always made things so much better.
He was a friend.
He didn’t have the widest circle of friends but he had quite a few and the depth of those friendships were real. Chris and Cux and Phil and many others. His friend Sebastian summed it up with these words.
“I miss Tim so much. He exemplified all the rare qualities of a true friend. He touched my life in a profound way.”
And Tim would be the first to point out that on-line friendships can be true and real as well. He was an active part of several communities on the internet and had many more friends there. He always fought for intelligent discourse and civility on the web. They miss him too.
He was smart.
I remember picking him up from Bishop Moore after he took the SAT. He said “Dad, The Math was kind of hard, but I got everything right on the verbal”.
I laughed and told him, yeah, right, no one does that. But he did.
He worked these logic puzzle books for fun. He had a powerful intellect. It carried him through a degree from Rollins even as his illnesses had begun to make school very hard.
He was a writer.
Tim loved writing. He loved the English language.
He was good.
A Rollins professor wrote a letter of recommendation for grad school and said that Tim was the best writer he had seen in 20 years of teaching.
He was a great editor too. He edited a few things for me over the years and always made things so much better.
He was a friend.
He didn’t have the widest circle of friends but he had quite a few and the depth of those friendships were real. Chris and Cux and Phil and many others. His friend Sebastian summed it up with these words.
“I miss Tim so much. He exemplified all the rare qualities of a true friend. He touched my life in a profound way.”
And Tim would be the first to point out that on-line friendships can be true and real as well. He was an active part of several communities on the internet and had many more friends there. He always fought for intelligent discourse and civility on the web. They miss him too.
