It is November. They are starting to groom the slopes up at Monarch. We are well into the change of the seasons. While this evidence of the cycle of life goes on it's steady course a well lived life came to an end this week. Bob Cook, a founding member of Salida Brass, died of cancer at the age of sixty. Bob grew up in Salida, he and his Brother ran a hardware store and Bob went on to working as a accountant.
This kind of steady and quiet life is such foundation for so much that gets done in America. This kind of life is, for me, a reminder of "one day at a time" is all we really have a promise of. Planning, obsessing if you will, about the future is shown to be the folly it is, when a good life ends before it's time, such as Bob's.
The Salida Brass, with the founding father of the group visiting, will gather this Saturday the 14th of November to honor Bob. We will be playing Christ the Lord is Risen as Bob did every Easter for 44 years.
Perseverance is a human quality that I have come to appreciate more as I have aged. I feel it is the foundation of accomplishment. Certainly to accomplish you have to start, but, you have to also finish. I view Bob's life as well lived.
Rest in peace Bob, we will carry on, we will be steady, we will try and live with integrity, one day at a time..
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