ZachsCast

A year ago I started this project with a cute piece about this being Groundhog Day. I guess you could say ZachsCast is now one year old. Today, although some are expecting me to do an audio podcast about PZ Myers (a biologist whom I respect as a professor and a human being but also happen to respectfully disagree with on many things) but I’m gonna save that for tonight at Synesthesia’s BlogTalkRadio podcast. I might do a follow up later in the week here. Haven’t decided yet.

Instead, I happened upon this. About a year ago (in the recording I think I say two but that’s cuz I can’t count) my brother-in-law Ed passed away. I had written down how I felt and what I thought about his passing. The intention was to record it for this project but I either set it aside thinking I’d do it later, or as it turns out perhaps I was too close to it at the time to successfully record it. I barely got through it this time, but get through it I did, and with only some restrained editing on my part, here’s the end result. Death is not something I necessarily fear. It’s not exactly something I celebrate either. It is however a natural part of life and each of us deal with it in our own way. I dedicate this ZachsCast to my sister TC, her family, and everyone whose lives were touched by Ed, a funny man with asthma who once carried my sister on his bike and got her home when there was no other way to safely do so. It wasn’t easy. But he did it. As a preteen at the time I figured that meant he loved her. If he loved my sister, that made him family. And I was right.