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This website is a place where Greg's family, friends, and colleagues can post
tributes or photos about Greg. For now, it will also serve as
a place where information will be posted about future memorial services
or other gatherings related to Greg. You may also sign up for the
Listserv and would then receive information via email as well.
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In Memorial
There was a service on the evening of Friday June 3rd in Greg's hometown of Lutherville, MD.
A second memorial service was held Saturday, June 25 at 2:00 p.m. at Greg's church in Sudbury, MA
Follow these links to read two articles that appeared in the Boston Globe and MetroWest about Greg's life and the Sudbury service. Boston Globe Metrowest Daily News
Dawn Desert Hike in Greg's Memory
On May 25th, about 20 of Greg’s friends and colleagues, gathered together in Tucson Arizona for the Conference on Environmental Conflict Resolution, took a sunrise hike into desert (organized by Cindy Cooke). Among the flowering Saguaro cacti, a lone owl returning from the night’s hunt, and a few early morning hummingbirds, we joined hands in a prayer circle in honor of Greg. After sharing many kind words and reflecting on our own private memories, we were able to reach a consensus that Greg would have loved being with us at this special spot. (Although, we also agreed, it was more likely that he would have arrived after pulling one of his all-nighters rather than rolling out of bed at 4 AM with the rest of us).
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Well, Greg – I guess this will have to substitute for the final conversation we never had. Your departure is too immediate for me to process, but I know that at some point I’ll be in the midst of some otherwise mundane task when I’ll unexpectedly think of you and be forced to pause. I’ll find some comfort in that moment, a combination of fondness for our episodic friendship and grief for my loss – a sense of closure and resolution that looks pretty elusive right now. In short, I will look forward to missing you. I’m sorry you chose to leave us, but that sorrow is selfish; it is focused myopically on those you left behind. As for you, Greg, seldom have I felt a sense of kinship with someone I have met so infrequently. You had a knack of being and living in the moment and giving undivided attention to the person with whom you were conversing. I loved that we could use the pretext of a “business” conversation to talk about issues of meaning and other things that matter. You were, and will remain, more special than you ever realized. Thanks for the gift of yourself.
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- Steve Garon
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