Too early
I had several different posts planned. This one wasn't even a plan. It's more of a necessity for myself. Early Sunday morning November 29, 2020 my Uncle Dave passed away after a battle with cancer. The news was shocking. We knew it was terminal but to face the reality that a soul has left this earth too early (but early any death is too early). That the face you know so well will never be seen again this side of heaven is something you feel in the deepest parts of your being. Dave Carell was not biologically my uncle. He and my parents became friends in high school. The best of friends. It wasn't until I was much older that I realized this man was not my dad's brother. Weird. He was always just Uncle Dave. The guy who showed up in the most random times (or at least in my memories). We'd come home and there he was. Sitting at the kitchen table, drinking coffee. Occasionally he'd had a deer hanging up in the shed out back. It was from him and my dad that a lear...