MORGAN

This blog doesn’t have that many readers. Mostly family and friends. From time to time though I’ll get a comment about a nice picture or some other reference and learn that a friend or associate popped in for a visit. We lost one reader early Thursday morning.


When I joined the company 30 something years ago, Morgan had just been promoted and I was hired to fill the role she had just left. We had been friends ever since. Much to my surprise she followed this blog and would comment at work on things that we had done or pictures.

Morgan usually wore a smile that is hard to describe. It wasn’t a naïve smile. She had been through life’s struggles. It was an inner smile that radiated. She had a way of connecting with people. 58 years young she had a spirit that was both young and wise. And curious and liberal and open.

I suppose most folks, me included, fall into general categories or groups, but Morgan was one of a kind.

Thursday morning I uncharacteristically had the TV on while getting ready and just as I was about to step off the boat I learned of a horrific crash on 520 that shut down all the eastbound lanes. Wrong way driver had slammed into another car. Not for a moment thinking that Morgan had been driving to work and suddenly encountered a wrong way drunk driver with a closing speed of 100 mph in the opposite direction just before 5:30 in the morning. Divided highway, blind curve. She never had a chance.

Maybe she saved someone behind her who will greatly contribute the world someday. Maybe this was part of some grand plan. Maybe there is no plan. Seemingly senseless losses are tough leaving those behind to struggle for answers that never come.

The rest of us will pick up and go forward, but the world won’t be quite as fun without Morgan. She smiled and made people smile. I suppose we’ll still smile when we think of her, without the belly laugh at one of her many stories.

I reminisced with one of her team yesterday who has battled cancer multiple times. She just couldn’t understand why Morgan was gone and she wasn’t. Another associate who has battled cancer for sometime summed it up neatly when he said ‘Death sucks’. It does. It truly does.

But if Morgan were here reading, she’d say something along the lines of “death may suck, but life doesn’t” and flip the argument to the positive side. Her spirit will carry on in the many lives she touched.

The picture at the top was at her favorite watering hole....