On Saturday, May 3, 2008, one of my best friends and one of the few men dearest to my heart died in a traffic accident.

I have written about him more in my LiveJournal:  http://jeisenne.livejournal.com and I will be writing more about him as the memories and the emotion start to seep through my veins and being.

Nick, it's going to be a long time before you and I finally get to see each other again, and until that time I will think about you often.  All the love and adoration I felt for you, I will stuff it down and tuck it away into a small corner of my heart, and at least I will be able to carry you like that until my dying day.  You know that Jerry and I will make sure that the boys grow up with our memories of you.  We all miss you on NK.  Everybody misses you because everybody loved you so damn much.

Death is not extinction of who you were, who you ARE, it is only the cessation of the body, a mere change of form.  Life flows on to achieve its conquest of the universe, life flows on til it merges into the Eternal.  I know that I will see you again someday, my friend, and when that day comes I know you'll ask me if I enjoyed the scenic route.

But for now, I grieve, because I wish you were still here among us.

Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
Glide me towards you
Know something's left
And we're all allowed
To dream of the next
Of the next time we touch...

You don't have to stray
Two oceans away
Waves roll in my thoughts
Hold tight the ring
The sea will rise
Please stand by the shore

Oh I will be...
I will be...
I will be there once more

~ Eddie Vedder