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all the way back to the letter W. Someone on the team said, W-O-W.
What does that stand for?
That's nonsense.
It's a mistake.
And I said, hold on a minute.
That's not a mistake.
He just typed the word wow.
He just gave me a word my kids would use about the beauty and majesty of life.
And isn't it amazing how the man who faces so much adversity still looks at the world through the eyes of wonder?
His nurse said, he's exhausted.
Let's give his eyes a rest.
Let's take off his sensor, take off his glasses and replace them with his dark sunglasses.
And then I saw it.
A vision of a badass rock star of hope.
And I took this picture.
This is my fitting tribute to a legend of our time, a man who believed that connection equals compassion.
So I'm not going to leave you with an answer.
I'm going to leave you with a question.
Are we to be bystanders, like moths dancing around somebody else's flame, or are we to be upstanders?
And we light darkness ourselves with our own torch of compassion, because when there is light, we see each other not as strangers, not as opponents, but as creative partners.