That happened to me today when I learned of the death of Bobby Pin. My Burning Man buddy was one of the most charming, out-going people you could ever meet. Bobby made documentaries,
took beautiful photographs, and helped run film festivals all over the world.
Just a month ago he posted a FB picture of himself smiling from an ocean-side hammock
captioned, "Day 4, Quarantined in Hawaii. Stay safe". I imagined how wonderful it would to surf and eat mangos until the pandemic passed.
He got the virus soon after and died last night in the Maui General Hospital.
His family, Burning Man friends, and partner, Dan Greening, did their best to share their love and help him pull though.
The world traveler took his last trip to an intensive care unit. How incredibly sad to think that someone who had so many admiring friends had to die -more or less- alone. Bobby was just a smiling sixteen year-old who happened to turn fifty last January. Heaven's a better place with him there.
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