Today is the anniversary of my fathers passing. It has been a long year I have grown up a lot in the past 12 months. It has been a year of reflection and healing. I took the news of my fathers passing very hard, as did everyone that knew him. I often reflect on the time we spent together when I was growing up. A lot of tough love..:-0. My father taught me death was not the end, but a beginning of a different life. Wow! I you knew him he probably shared this with you also. The possibilities are limitless when you think it like that. I know my father had completed his work in this reality this is why he left. Knowing this still does take away the tears at times like now. Sometime I sit and think about all the questions I still have for him. I think about the many stories his friends shared with me, and think to myself, Wow, I didn't know that. This morning I was at his house,my wife and I went down for the weekend to take some furniture and inspect the property, and Joe his brother came down and we talked. It had not dawned on me that it was the anniversary of his death at that time. I had a comment that my father was being cast in some type of movie and past away a month before it was to happen. I said my father told me that he was going to make it big. Joe said he always was shooting for that. He went on to tell me that in the 60's my father and another man in Miami had invented a saltwater ice machine. This was a big deal back then because ice machines were not common for freshwater let-alone saltwater. Anyways apparently my father had brought a work model home to St. Augustine and demonstrated it to the shrimp boat owners. He was sure this was his big ticket. Shortly after returning to Miami the guy took off with the invention. The rest is history. google this "Salt water ice making machine - Patent 3310958". It all matches the story my Uncle told me down to the dates. Wow. I am very proud of everything my father has done and been apart of. Dad I love and miss you Arron