r.i.p. a.i.

sorrow.
i didn't believe it when i read it this evening.
how could someone so young and so healthy, so strong in body and mind pass away?  i really don't know why this stirs me as much as it does as i never knew him personally, our only real connection being our common love for our home, and the fact that we, by one reason or other, are forced to live so far from it for so much of each year.  it really hit me thinking about how he died.  by himself in a strange place that had nothing to do with anything in his life.  just an unfortunate alignment of events culminating in that faraway hotel room in texas.  when andy came back and began to win again, i think everyone cheered for him.  his mind was straighter, clearer, and at peace.  again, i don't exactly know why, but it really pains me that he's gone.  hawaii lost one of its true sons today.
r.i.p. a.i.