Normally on a Friday, I would post a rather humorous “Freaky Friday Self Portrait”,
with perhaps an alien popping out of my head or with my chest ripped open showing
a mouse as a heart.
Something silly and light-hearted.

Today … at 5:50 this morning … my older brother Jim passed out of this world
after suffering a long and prolonged illness that wasted his life away.

This image is a combined photo showing my bother in the prime of his life
during the 70’s and a photograph taken just last year when he was diagnosed
with the disease that would eventually steal his life away. Jim was diagnosed
with Frontal Temporal Dementia, Lou Gehrig’s disease and Aphasia.

He was the most brilliant man I’ve ever known, and made his living as a top
Computer Programmer and Data Analyst for the military working at a secret military
base somewhere deep in the back woods of Maryland. He was fascinated by all things
of science, and as late as the year before in a phone conversation he told me that
he was going back to school to study to become a Micro Biologist and Geneticist.
He was a brilliant photographer; doing naturally what it took me years to develop
after hundreds of hours of study.

He’s left a huge bleeding hole in my life, and I will miss him horribly.

“Peace” at last brother Jim.