Tom,
Here's to you!! You still shine bright in all our hearts!
With candles burning and beers toasten, Happy Birthday Our Friend!
LOVE Your AK Posse.
(Photo: thanks to Eric Teela).
Friday, December 30, 2011
Happy 43rd Birthday Beatty! Still Shining Bright!
Tom,
Here's to you!! You still shine bright in all our hearts!
With candles burning and beers toasten, Happy Birthday Our Friend!
LOVE Your AK Posse.
(Photo: thanks to Eric Teela).
Friday, September 30, 2011
I will always remember...
I will never forget that day, and I will always remember Tom as my personal hero.
I miss him. Thought of him the other day as I walked on the beach in Homer with a new friend. There was a group of schoolchildren there and I thought about Lindsay missing her Dad. When I was 7 my dad was nearly killed in a bike accident on the Seward highway and I am blessed every day to have him in my life. Living with a traumatic brain injury is not all that easy, but I feel fortunate. With Tom, our dear friend, he left a lasting impression on Everyone he met, young or old, and he was your best friend at that moment in time. Tom stopped talk with my Dad every day on his way home from Challenge, moments I will cherish forever. The simple short conversations between neighbors and friends. Tom was often the only reason I crawled out of bed on a stormy winter morning, to volunteer at Challenge, and get a Tom hug and a million dollar smile before teaching a lesson. And of course he was always there to talk it out at the end of the day if things didn't go so well on the hill. Or to just bask in the glory of the day and share a beer on the back porch and watch the sun set over Turnagain Arm. When his Mom said to me at his memorial, " I see him in your eyes", I was honored, blessed, and heartbroken all at once. I would love to see the slide show again someday, and celebrate his life at Challenge with friends and some beer, and to see a Tom Beatty Learning Center started. My small wish. And to light a candle with your dear Kirsten, and share a beer in the Eagles nest on the stormiest of days, just as Tom and I did. Watching the ravens play in the wind and snow and sitting on our gloves, sipping a fine Irish beer.
Hugs,love and peace forever, Heather
I miss him. Thought of him the other day as I walked on the beach in Homer with a new friend. There was a group of schoolchildren there and I thought about Lindsay missing her Dad. When I was 7 my dad was nearly killed in a bike accident on the Seward highway and I am blessed every day to have him in my life. Living with a traumatic brain injury is not all that easy, but I feel fortunate. With Tom, our dear friend, he left a lasting impression on Everyone he met, young or old, and he was your best friend at that moment in time. Tom stopped talk with my Dad every day on his way home from Challenge, moments I will cherish forever. The simple short conversations between neighbors and friends. Tom was often the only reason I crawled out of bed on a stormy winter morning, to volunteer at Challenge, and get a Tom hug and a million dollar smile before teaching a lesson. And of course he was always there to talk it out at the end of the day if things didn't go so well on the hill. Or to just bask in the glory of the day and share a beer on the back porch and watch the sun set over Turnagain Arm. When his Mom said to me at his memorial, " I see him in your eyes", I was honored, blessed, and heartbroken all at once. I would love to see the slide show again someday, and celebrate his life at Challenge with friends and some beer, and to see a Tom Beatty Learning Center started. My small wish. And to light a candle with your dear Kirsten, and share a beer in the Eagles nest on the stormiest of days, just as Tom and I did. Watching the ravens play in the wind and snow and sitting on our gloves, sipping a fine Irish beer.
Hugs,love and peace forever, Heather
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