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Tom Taylor

Goodbye Dad

Farewell Thomas Alexander Taylor, I could not have wished for a better father and role model. I will miss you terribly.

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  1. Greg …
    My very sincere sympathy on your loss of your father (Grandma Grail too) – they are more often than not very special people, I know mine was. Will be thinking of you all in the coming days.

    Best wishes, Kathrinn

  2. Goodbye
    “I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine that would attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.” – Abraham Lincoln.

    Your tribute touched me. Peace to you and yours – Paul

  3. into the light
    I also share in understanding your loss for my father passed on yesterday 1/22/2011 too. At 82 he had struggled with kidney failure and congestive heart failure for 4 years. He had put up a good fight but kept loosing ground since Christmas. I too will miss him dearly. He always seemed to love life deeply and knew the value of living. I liked your superman comment for I once gave my dad a superman birthday cake. He could never understand why our world can spend so much for war and destroying each other but never want to spend to make the world better for everyone so there is no need for war. I only hope to achieve some of the way he knew how to make a life from the Earth with the source of life itself within us. The Daily Grail structure is a light for the world and shows how people with completely differing views can lay them on the table and together sort out some truth. Time will heal but memories are forever.

  4. Condolences
    My sympathies, Greg, are with you and your family. Your dad, I’m sure, is in good hands as his journey continues. That, naturally, doesn’t take away the pain that you are feeling from your loss right now.

    May he live long in your thoughts until you meet again.

    Dave.

  5. My deepest sympathies on your loss
    How sad. I do hope you and the rest of your family are bearing up well at this time, Greg.

    As for your father, I’m sure he does indeed ‘fare well’.

    Stephen

  6. My condolences, Greg
    There aren’t any words that I might add which would, in any manner, assuage your feelings during these times.

    I would simply say that the loss of one in this community is a loss for us all, and I am reminded of something that General Patton once said, which I shall paraphrase here:

    “weep not that we have lost such a man. Rather, let us rejoice that such men lived!”

    My deepest condolences to you and yours.

  7. I know whereof you feel.
    Blessings to your feelings. I have lost my father some five years ago and still cannot move past the feelings I had for that great man. He lives inside me.

    Sincerely,

    Orion and all the other guys that I exist under, Including Oscar.

  8. Fathers death
    Greg, my sincere and heartfelt sympathy on the death of your father. Words are little comfort at a time like this, the grief is for the loved ones and those effected to bear in their own way. My own father died in ’84 at 64, far too young and scarce a day since that I do not have moments of fond recall.

    I am sure that it will be likewise for you.

    He that honors his Father shall have a long life (Eccles…. 3:6)

  9. Dearest Greg my deepest
    Dearest Greg my deepest Condolences to you and your family for your father’s passing. I know this is a very sad and difficult time for you and your family. You have my very deepest sympathy. My thoughts and prayers are with you. We can take comfort in knowing that death is not the end, and Life/Love is eternal.

  10. If it is any consolation, he
    If it is any consolation, he is still around. I know this now from my recent experience with departed spirits. Especially in these next few days may I suggest that you talk to him out loud as if he were in the room with you. He is.
    These partings are just as hard on them as they are on us though they are in the place of peace. They do not like to see their relatives devastated though, and they wish for nothing more than that you understand they are still alive.

  11. Father’s passing.
    Greg,

    My deepest sympathy on the loss of your father. Mine has been gone for 7 yrs now and I think of him every day.

    May peace and comfort be with you and your family during this time of crisis.

    Burgy.

  12. My tribute for you father
    Ciao Greg

    In my life I have had 2 big losses: aunt Lucia and uncle Pietro that had been as parents and true pillars for me and my mother, when I think to them I think at the honor and privilege to have had with me and for me 2 people so extraordinary.

    I hope (but I am sure) that the memory, your love and the estimation that you have for your father will be your force for all your life.

    An embrace
    Katya

  13. Thanks
    Just wanted to reply with my sincere thanks to all for your sympathies and best wishes. Also, the kind words about The Daily Grail – sometimes doing this gig you start to think that people don’t value the site too highly, that it’s just a disposable commodity…and then you get some wonderful comments like above. Thanks so much to you all.

    We had a really good week of family time, discussing things, saying our goodbyes to dad, and I think we couldn’t be feeling any better right now, at least for the situation we find ourselves in.

    Lightkeeper: my condolences on your own loss, I hope you are doing okay. Gwedd: thanks for the quote, it actually turned up in Dad’s eulogy as well!

    1. Never
      [quote=Greg]Just wanted to reply with my sincere thanks to all for your sympathies and best wishes. Also, the kind words about The Daily Grail – sometimes doing this gig you start to think that people don’t value the site too highly, that it’s just a disposable commodity…[/quote]

      Don’t you EVER think that!!!
      …or I will have to hit you with a baseball bat 😉

    2. Well
      Time never heals all wounds, despite what folks say. Some losses will hurt forever, but they do lessen over time.

      Regardless, this place MATTERS! We may disagree on some things, but that’s what families do. I would have a hard time if this place went away. It’s always got something interesting to read, or watch, and especially to think about, and THAT is really the heart of things, I do believe.

      It makes you think, ponder, consider, and that’s a good thing.

      My only regret is being unable to do more to help out, but hopefully that will change in the coming weeks.

      My best wishes to you and yours,

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