My friend Mark

[kate_schaefer]

My friend Mark was, at various points and to varying degrees, a professional astronomer, a museum exhibit designer, a writer, an actor with a particular talent for improv, a Shakespeare scholar, a Sherlock Holmes devotee, a photographer, a fan of the Karamozov Brothers and The Brothers Karamozov, a film afficionado, a friend to dogs, my Clarion West classmate in 1992, a man with a loving metaphorical heart and a defective physical heart. He was, most of all, the devoted and beloved spouse and true life partner of e_bourne. He died yesterday.

Across twenty years, we were never very close, but always happy to see each other. In twenty years of that kind of friendship, we were present in each other's lives in some hard times and some good times, because that happens, across time. I'm happy to have known him and glad to have seen the care he and Elizabeth took of each other.

Goodbye, Mark. You could always make me laugh. Too.