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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life — It goes on” — Robert Frost

My family is the most important thing in my life. No business, association, school, incubator or other endeavor in which I’m involved comes close. We’ve now lost two cornerstones of our family at an all too young age, but life does go on. It especially goes on for two young girls whose futures remain bright despite the sadness in their past.

I took off most of the past two months from work and community projects to support my family.

But I’m returning next week, with a new agenda and a renewed commitment to pursuits that matter most. Life is — clearly — too short to be timid, too short to avoid risk, too short to lack boldness, and too damn short to care what critics may say.

Ready….

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Sadness

It took seven short weeks from diagnosis for cancer to capture my Mom’s life, nearly every day of which I was able to spend with her. The last faces she looked upon belonged to two young girls she adored, and the last thing she heard was all our love surrounding her. She joins my young sister, now, in the tight embraces of our family, right where our hearts meet.

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