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RIP Leonard Nimoy
Feb. 28th, 2015 08:05 amI can remember the first Star Trek episode I saw. It was Devil in the Dark and my introduction to Spock. As an episode it is OK but it was a strong Spock episode because hr melded with the Horta and got the answers that they needed. I became a Star Trek fan and my favorite character was Spock.
A number of years later on my eighteenth birthday, my parents took me out to dinner. While we were at dinner my father talked to me about being an adult because now I was legally one. He told me that since now I was an adult, he was going to let me into the great secret of adulthood and feeling like an adult. He handed me a small package that I opened. In it was an action figure of Spock from one of the films and he said, “You never do.”
I met him once. Peter had a couple of times and presented him with the Dragon Con Julie Award. It was at a convention right after his photography book entitled Shekhina was published. He remembered meeting Peter in Italy (I’ll let Peter tell that story because he tells it so much better than I) and he knew that Peter was a Star Trek author even before they met because of John DeLancie. Peter introduced me as his wife. We kind of held up the line a bit because we got to talking photography. He shook my hand when we were done and told me it had been nice to meet me.
He had social media pretty much figured out. His tweets were great. I don’t remember when he offered to be anyone’s honorary grandpa (OK a little Internet research says it was January 15 2014) but I remember the response from the Internet and he declaring that he was the proudest Grandpa. His last tweet should have clued us in that things were not great. A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
He would admit he was not a perfect person but he was a good person who did have his heart in the right place.
He will be missed.
And honestly one could say of his life that he did live long and prospered and that is a good life indeed.
I am grateful that I got to meet Leonard Nimoy.
A number of years later on my eighteenth birthday, my parents took me out to dinner. While we were at dinner my father talked to me about being an adult because now I was legally one. He told me that since now I was an adult, he was going to let me into the great secret of adulthood and feeling like an adult. He handed me a small package that I opened. In it was an action figure of Spock from one of the films and he said, “You never do.”
I met him once. Peter had a couple of times and presented him with the Dragon Con Julie Award. It was at a convention right after his photography book entitled Shekhina was published. He remembered meeting Peter in Italy (I’ll let Peter tell that story because he tells it so much better than I) and he knew that Peter was a Star Trek author even before they met because of John DeLancie. Peter introduced me as his wife. We kind of held up the line a bit because we got to talking photography. He shook my hand when we were done and told me it had been nice to meet me.
He had social media pretty much figured out. His tweets were great. I don’t remember when he offered to be anyone’s honorary grandpa (OK a little Internet research says it was January 15 2014) but I remember the response from the Internet and he declaring that he was the proudest Grandpa. His last tweet should have clued us in that things were not great. A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
He would admit he was not a perfect person but he was a good person who did have his heart in the right place.
He will be missed.
And honestly one could say of his life that he did live long and prospered and that is a good life indeed.
I am grateful that I got to meet Leonard Nimoy.
