I don't want to give the impression that Dave was perfect in every way. But the truth of it is that he really didn't have many faults. He could occasionally be impatient, but that was usually after he had been patient for a long time (I was usually the one he had been patient with). He had little tolerance for anyone who was not truthful. Shallowness and "fronting" were two things he could not abide. He frequently was exasperated with his mother, but he wasn't the only one on that count.
He believed in and tried to see only the good in people and would frequently call me out when I would get frustrated about someone and say something that might be less than kind. That was a great lesson I learned from him, to think and consider everything before I say it. "Words have power" he used to tell me and so I have learned to wield that power with restraint, something that was not true before I met him.
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
