“I’m optimistic that tomorrow will bring a welcome opportunity to move past the gloom and grievances of the last couple days and write something fun,” I wrote yesterday. Famous last words. This morning I learned that Best Friend passed away.* I’ll be back tomorrow but don’t know what to say right now other than I love you, Joe, and miss you already.
* He loved music and in his final weeks sent dispatches from concerts by the Flaming Lips, Billy Bragg, and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. Joe struggled valiantly with depression for most of his life but its iron grip cruelly tightened in recent years. He would’ve found it as bleakly funny as I did that the first song I heard after learning of his death was Katrina and the Waves’ “Walking on Sunshine.”