It’s been a minute. It’s been a while. Okay, it’s been a longtime since I posted here.
Life moves along and sometimes the words are just not ready to come out.
But things happen and a lot has happened recently. Some are good and some bad.
But they provided the spark to write this.
For instance June always gets off to a rough start as it marks the anniversary of Luke’s death. It’s hard to comprehend that it has been 8 years. It seems like I was just talking to him, working with him and traveling to Sedona with him. But losing him was why I started this project and he lives on through this.
Another bit of news that rekindled the pain was the news in late May of the death of Grayson Murray. He was not a lawyer, but he was a 30 year old man who ended his own life. Not just any young man but a successful young golfer. It proves that success and money are not shields against addiction and depression.
On the upside there has been a recent uptick in activity/visitors to the Trials of Luke FB Page.That is encouraging and a sign that I should offer more thoughts if people are interested. So here I am.
On a positive note I recently received an email from Bruce Simpson, letting me know that he had visited this site and offered his condolences and was there if I ever needed to talk about Luke.
For those of you who are not familiar with Bruce’s story, I’ll share it and at the end provide the link so that you can read it in his own words. Bruce Simpson, is a well known Lexington attorney, who recently came forward with his story of how he faced depression and contemplated suicide before choosing to live and face his problems. I have had some dealings with Bruce in the legal realm, most of them more than 20 years ago. I have always had a great admiration for his work particularly in the area of real estate and zoning. So when I first heard his story, I was stunned but at the same time well aware of the toll that the legal profession takes on so many practitioners.
I recommend that you read his whole story, but in a nutshell an grievous error in the handling of a case drove him to the point of slipping off to an isolated location late at night, gun in hand, prepared, he believed to bring his depression to an end. But luckily he changed course.
Here is the link to his article:
Certainly, as I have mentioned before, in the case of my brother Bill, his multiple bypass surgery may have left him feeling that he was losing his memory and cognitive skills. He even wondered if he had been exposed to carbon monoxide. Whatever, the cause when you are the alpha and you feel that position of esteem is slipping away, you may not feel the herd needs you any longer and you no longer serve a worthy purpose.
Well, I do not have the answers, but it is important that the discussions continue in hopes of preventing the untimely loss of one more member of our legal community.
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