Nice piece. Thankyou. One tweak: Addiction doesn't make you larger than life, or smaller. It's just that you and life are never going to be a good fit. What the culture offers as paths to "success" and "happiness" and "love" don't lead to a place where life can satisfy you. Just to the inevitable escape.
I appreciate it and I know your perspective. It was more of a comment on his outsized dimensions. He had a big game, big appetites, big defenses, big capacity to respond to slights, big enthusiasms, big vulnerabilities. It's hard to deal with such things. I think the point about him and his life not being a good fit is sort of what I was trying to say.
As always, elegantly written and with an empathy so rare in the modern press. This one really got me.
Nice piece. Thankyou. One tweak: Addiction doesn't make you larger than life, or smaller. It's just that you and life are never going to be a good fit. What the culture offers as paths to "success" and "happiness" and "love" don't lead to a place where life can satisfy you. Just to the inevitable escape.
I appreciate it and I know your perspective. It was more of a comment on his outsized dimensions. He had a big game, big appetites, big defenses, big capacity to respond to slights, big enthusiasms, big vulnerabilities. It's hard to deal with such things. I think the point about him and his life not being a good fit is sort of what I was trying to say.
Yep, got it. Definitely proof that $ don't buy happiness.
Can’t help but wonder how you research these youth tournaments from 15 plus years ago Mark.
Nice column, but very sad.
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A fabuluous piece of insight about a tragic loss.
Beautifully written.