Rob was well... Rob. He was caring, compassionate, loving, stubborn and hardheaded. All these traits made him the lovable Otter he was. The first time I saw a post by Rob, I kinda got real harsh and blunt with him about recovery and what it meant. No excuses, no bullshit. I thought for sure he would explode and go off on me. Instead, he sat back and took the tough love and did something with it.
He was a good big brother to me as well as a friend. I am going to miss him dearly.
Rob and I became close last summer. I was going through divorce, he was just learning of his impending fatherhood. Through our own painful experiences, we found a place to laugh and love and forget our troubles for a while. Rob encouraged me to live my life again, to take risks and step out of my self-imposed prisons. He healed me in ways I could never fully communicate to him, and my life is better for having known him.
I am glad he is free of the pains of this world, rejoining the web he wrote so eloquently about. But my heart is full of sadness for those he left.
I am in shock and don't really know what to say except that I will miss him. I hope I can compose myself enough to say more later. How can this be real? :(
I'm so sorry to hear about this. I knew Rob from LJ and later from the meetings at Eye of Horus in Minneapolis, though I didn't have the availability to make it to those particular meetings too often, I have and continue to send people there; I know he was instrumental in getting the Solstice and Equinox AA groups established. He was an all round good guy, he made a difference, and he will be missed probably by more people than he could have realized.
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He was a good big brother to me as well as a friend. I am going to miss him dearly.
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I am glad he is free of the pains of this world, rejoining the web he wrote so eloquently about. But my heart is full of sadness for those he left.
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Goodbye Rob.
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