{"id":3217,"date":"2017-03-07T08:31:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T15:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2023-06-30T05:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T11:40:39","slug":"out-out-brief-candle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/07\/out-out-brief-candle\/","title":{"rendered":"Out, out, brief candle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;text-align: center;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"bxwretlind\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Out%2C%20out%2C%20brief%20candle...\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Death is not a good topic, but one that&#8217;s been on my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been a long time since I wrote a blog post and a longer time since I thought I had something to say. I will eventually share why I&#8217;ve been distant (if you can be &#8220;distant&#8221; in a networking world), but today I come with news that, at first, sounds morbid but is nothing more than a praise of life. Even so, death stinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>A LITTLE BACKGROUND<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NPfs1a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Blasphemy-Douglas-Preston-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blasphemy Douglas Preston\" class=\"wp-image-3225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Blasphemy-Douglas-Preston-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Blasphemy-Douglas-Preston.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love most work by Douglas Preston, whether he&#8217;s going solo or writing with his partner Lincoln Child. One of the first novels I read by Mr. Preston was <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NPfs1a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blasphemy<\/a><\/em>, a fictionalized look at the search for the Higgs boson, or &#8220;God Particle.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In February 2013, I stumbled across the Facebook &#8220;fan&#8221; page dedicated to a movie-version of <em>Blasphemy<\/em>. As it has long been one of my favorite books&#8211;smartly written with an action-packed plot, dynamic characters and set in a part of the world I used to call home&#8211;I thought it awesome there was going to be a movie, and I instantly &#8220;liked&#8221; the page. (Apparently it hadn&#8217;t been up long as I was number 9.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recall posting on that page something about how I was excited about seeing <em>Blasphemy<\/em> on the silver screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A short time later, John Allen Folsom contacted me, at first apologetic for not responding to that one little post and then expressing his gratitude that I&#8217;d taken an interest in the film. He was currently writing the screenplay for the novel, and the page was put up in an effort to garner interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was even more exciting news, as screenwriting was something I&#8217;d always taken an interest in but never attempted. I have images in my head when I write or read, and good screenwriting is impressive. I&#8217;m a novelist, not a screenwriter, but in truth, all stories are moving images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through an extremely casual relationship on Facebook, I learned that John had Aspergers (which one of my sons suffers from as well), was a father, and a loving husband. I gathered most of this from nothing more than reading into someone&#8217;s life on that virtual wall of posts. Most of you may know what I mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every once in a while, I would post a link on my Facebook page encouraging people to head on over and &#8220;like&#8221; the <em>Blasphemy<\/em> page and watch as the screenplay was being written. Mr. Preston himself once jumped on my bandwagon, and the page shot up to about 374 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, John posted three pages of his screenplay to his <em>Blasphemy<\/em> page. I really liked what he&#8217;d written and it helped solidify in my mind that internal picture I&#8217;d always had of the novel. So, I shared that link with the note: &#8220;Excited about the progress John Folsom has been making with <em>Blasphemy<\/em> by Douglas Preston, one of the smartest novels in recent memory. Check out and &#8216;like&#8217; the <em>Blasphemy<\/em> page while you&#8217;re there.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later that day, John commented on that link: &#8220;Thanks, Benjamin, I appreciate it. You&#8217;re a good man.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>No, I&#8217;m not<\/em>, I thought, <em>but I want to be in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next afternoon, following an appointment I had with a doctor who intended to cut my throat and replace some disc in my neck, I read a post by John&#8217;s wife, Jennifer. It was shocking, to say the least:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is my very sad duty to inform everyone that my wonderful, loving, talented husband and the best father I could have ever asked for, John Allen Folsom, passed away in his sleep between 5:30am and 9am Sunday, May 5th. He is so very loved and missed. Funeral service information to follow in the comments area of this post.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>LOSS ON FACEBOOK<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know why, but I&#8217;d lost three Facebook friends in the two years before I read that post. Two of those were writers who I had only a passing acquaintance with, one was a very close friend who was killed in Afghanistan. Then there was John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Death stinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t really know John, any more than I know anyone else in the world of social networking. However, I liked him, was excited about his work, and looked forward to the future of the project he was working on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He connected with me, and that means something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I get older, I&#8217;m seeing more death. It makes me wonder exactly what it is that we know of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are we the 50 words of a biography on the back of a novel, or is there more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are we limited to explain ourselves away in&nbsp;a few characters on Twitter and be no more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are we the sum of our posts and our tweets and our YouTube clips, or is that the sum we wish others to see?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of you would say &#8220;of course we&#8217;re more, you simpleton,&#8221; but ask yourself what it is your fans and your readers and your social networking circle pals really know of your life? How ingrained are you in theirs? I&#8217;m not suggesting we open our hearts to every one, but you never know who you&#8217;re going to touch with a simple &#8220;Thank you&#8221; to a something they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a saying which was probably culled from my philosophical reading over the years: &#8220;<em>Live simply, but do not simply live.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John could not have simply lived. He had aspirations, and I was excited to see what would come of them. In my brief encounter, I was touched, and that is the essence of life: touch another and pass it on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a eulogy, this isn&#8217;t much, but I cannot sit by and say nothing. 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