Yesterday was spent in sad contemplation of a future without Stuart, listing to podcasts from the last six months. I found myself frequently grinning wildly, laughing and often on the verge of tears. 

In particular, Stuart's line from "Mary Turlington has Lice", after Dave has broken down his fear of catching lice from Mary and puts his arm around her: "It's not often we are our best selves. We are too often too preoccupied, too afraid, too busy or too taken up with whatever it is that has taken us up, too something anyway to allow ourselves to be our best self. Every once in a while, however we step up to the plate and hit the ball out of the park..."

Our family went to the Vinyl Cafe Christmas show at the NAC for several years and to one show during the summer at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and developed a great appreciation for the public Stuart McLean. This was another well written memorial on the G&M providing great insight into the man himself. Thanks.