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R.I.P Gene Saunders

To paraphrase Lewis Grizzard ---Gene Saunders is dead and i don't feel so good myself---------Yeah I know-------------it sucks-----but I can't ------and won't live in sadness, Gene wouldn't have wanted it that way--Gene was like a kid inside--y'know? he loved to laugh!!----------- he loved to live!!--He loved THE PLAY-------He was thoughtful and genuinely kind---He had a story for every occasion and a masterful way of telling it. I'd shed a tear in sadness, but so much more telling are the tears shed in laughter--------------------------------------------------Gene Saunders was/is as alive as anyone COULD EVER be,,-----animated---funny--loud---outrageous---unwilling to live the same day twice--- he was my teacher and my friend but ultimately he is my lesson---my lesson on how to remain happy, how to be gracious, how to be determined in relation to something you believe in, how to nurture a life and a friend in the theatre. and ultimately, no matter what ignoble circumstance befall you, how to remain dignified to the end. It's been sorely pointed out time and again, how short life can be, but when death takes a friend, these are the moments when we decide for ourselves, by ourselves,, important tenents of how we go on,, to change or not,,,, to care or not, to get out of bed tomorrow, to love the people in our lives with a little more gusto, to let the other guy out in traffic once in a while, .....and a million other thoughts that share a little space in us with our sense of humanity, -------a little space that today,with the passing of a friend, seems just a little emptier inside.