One Year Later: Remembering a Co-Founder of MSI Press LLC

 

We pause our Tuesday talks with authors to share information about to share our activities today, August 16, the one-year anniversary of the death of Carl Leaver, MSI Press co-faounder, primary graphic designer, and usual typesetter.

We asked everyone who knew him to eat a piece of chocolate in his memory. It is not too late for others to do the same.

Rather than repeat the in memoriam statement of a year ago, here is the link: IN MEMORIAM CARL LEAVER.

More posts about Carl can be found HERE. 

We began the day at the cemetery, beside his vault, and shared a rosary and his favorite breakfast -- corned beef hash -- with him, placing a favorite tablecloth from Damascus, with fine gold-thread embroidery that is unique to that area where Carl had spent time. Then we took some coffee cake bread to the firemen who so many times during the last months of his life would come and pick him off the floor or take him to the hospital. After that was lunch with friends and the priest who had organized and conducted the memorial service. Finally, our church prayer group met for "movie night," a favorite activity of Carl's for a dozen years -- a once-a-month gathering and always a special movie and pizza. Pizza we had. The movie we watched was Joshua, one that Carl liked especially well.

At the very end of the day, we received word from Science Care, the service through which Carl donated his body to science, that a second tree had been planted in his honor -- one right after the donation and now on the anniversary of his death. This is especially endearing since in his early career Carl worked for the US Forest Service in Montana and in a month we will go there as a family to plant poppies in his honor. 

Note: As a memorial to Carl Don Leaver, who died of cancer with very little warning, and simply because it is truly needed, MSI Press is now hosting a web page, Carl's Cancer Compendium, as a one-stop starting point for all things cancer, to make it easier for those with cancer to find answers to questions that can otherwise take hours to track down on the Internet and/or from professionals. The web page is in its infancy but expected to expand into robustness. To that end, it is expanded and updated weekly. As part of this effort, each week, on Monday, this blog will carry an informative, cancer-related story -- and be open to guest posts: Cancer Diary.     

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