Teaching ate me alive

[patrice]

38. Mike made an extremely good living out of that situation, but I am proud to say he also

ALWAYS went the extra mile for ALL of his clients, no matter what other people may have thought of them. He wrote his own software and managed his own server farm, so he was able to deal in volume, but worked himself to death anyway with all of the detail stuff.

He was a musician at heart, but following his dad's way in the world, after young years as a ground-breaking hippie at KU. We all grew up together. He was also a Vietnam combat vet who came to authentic cynicism and non-evangelical atheism, an absolutely fearless intellectual libertarian, deeply profoundly generous (his daughters had to keep an eye on his practice), he still believed in Democrats and Justice not only as a process but as a principle that applies to everyone, so, though he knew people cause a lot of their own problems, he was very aware of how exactly his clients' vulnerabilities had been used and he took great pleasure in evening up the score just a little. The kind of guy who didn't deserve the lawyers' bad name. He's only been gone not 2 years yet.

We miss him.

I have this absolutely awesome funky feisty OLD lhasa-apso, Dalai, whom he took as a fee once. She became his best friend. She's mine now and one of the delights of my life.