The Day Before

Eternity Came to Call

Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash

I am warning you , he does not look the same.

Those were the words that I uttered in February of 1998, to my 14-year-old daughter Jeannine. I was preparing to go to see Don, who was not only a friend but one of the first mentors I ever had. He lay dying in a local hospital bed, his body ravaged by the effects of cancer. He had not only been a work and life mentor to me, but a…