I met "TMoist" in September, 1973, when we both started at Carihi,
having missed meeting him in Esquimalt, the RCNR (where we both became
commissioned, if very junior, officers), and in Quesnel, where he worked
one summer for an environmental organization of which Sandy and I were
active members.
We have been friends ever since, and our paths have crossed and
re-crossed regularly, so it's curious that the only photo I could find
of him was from the summer of 1976, when he invited me to go sailing
with him.
In the last few years we talked about another, but to my
regret never managed it.
At my age one gets a bit numbed by the number of deaths among people we
know, but this one is different: closer, and more personal: I'm really
going to miss him.
--"Havelaar"
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