Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes?
Benjamin Franklin once said, “When I wake up in the morning, I immediately check the morning paper. If my name is not in the obituaries, I get up.” At least, I think it was Benjamin Franklin. I googled it and received an interesting number of answers, everything from George Burns to Phyllis Diller. Isn’t that the craziest thing about the internet? If I googled “US Congress votes to move Christmas to July,” there would be an article that supported that statement. But, I recall it as a Ben quote and 88% of my research agrees with me. So, Ben, credit goes to you, sir. I take the obits to heart. My column is nestled in right next to them each and every week, after all. Each year that I rotate around the sun and still have the ability to make a difference in this world, I am called to recall those whose day to day interactions are lost to us. And yet, we don’t really have daily obits anymore. Newspapers are about as common as the Brachiosaurus these days. Instead, we rely on social media to inform us who’s still here and who has left us. And, it is with that sentiment laying on my heart that I inform you that an icon left us last week. Francis Moore left this world. I realize that lifelong Forneyites will not understand what I am saying. But you transplanted Seagovillians, you’ll understand. Miss Francis was a peach.
