MARC LUMER

Even after all this time, I still miss Marc. I think this year is especially hard because of Anton Jungherr's recent passing. They were quite the duo at Making Waves. Wherever Marc is I know he's got a captive audience.

Marc, It's been a minute but I want to let you know that you and Bill Evers were some of the best mentors I've ever had. Your humor and irreverent approach to the staid world of business showed me that it's important to have fun all the time. You are greatly missed amigo. PS One of the punchlines from one of your best stories. "He didn't get high. He got normal..."

Marc,
Ten years later and some immediate thoughts about you:
Great host
Trash talking with me about which one of us is a better cook
Your refusal to pass up a chance to give me a big sloppy kiss
The fact that you never met a recipe that you didn’t think you could improve
After years of giving you grief about your ratty basketball shorts, I now have an identical pair that I wear too frequently
Best brother-in-law ever!
Love, Willie

Marc:
Ten years gone.
Thinking about you and both how long and how short ten years are.
Impossible to describe how different the world is now than when you were with us. Even you, a voracious reader, could not have visualized the time we’re living in, a cross between science fiction, psychology, fairy tales, magical realism, horror fiction, tragedy, satire, myth, and alternative facts.
The things that were most important to you are the same things that keep us sane:

Marc - Your upbeat laugh and always "going for it" zest; your sense of right from wrong > you'd be berserk with the WH's and Congress's going's on. You are missed always -my eyes fill with tears per the void of your friendship. Patti

Hi Marc,
I was late sending your birthday greetings on time this year even though Nan, Willie and I had dinner together and toasted you often. Since I was already late I decided to post on my birthday instead of crowing about you being 6 weeks older than I am. Now we're the same age it seems to matter less, but somewhere your birthday greetings; sent on my birthday, disappeared into the ether. Thus my last attempt.
The last year has been good and bad. The issues facing our country have...

I know it's somehow more positive to celebrate your birthday rather than the day you left us, but this day just seems to come to mind more often. I know it has to be a tough day for Nancy, so I am writing this as much for her as to honor and remember you. I am sending healing energy to all of us, to our angry country, our suffering planet, our lost souls. Thank you for all you did for us, and with us. We miss you from the bottom of our hearts. You would know just how to lift our spirits...

Happy Birthday Marc!!
Willie and I are celebrating you by staying 'on the crick'.
Nancy is in Paris, a city the two of you loved.
And, tonight I'm having dinner with Tanaka.
You'll be toasted all around.
While all of us are doing well, your beloved country is not as fortunate. The last election was disastrous. We have ceased to do the right thing and are no longer fulfilling our role of being a generous and compassionate part of the bigger world. For those of us who...

Marc,
This morning I sent you my regular birthday greetings and suddenly today all went upside down. Sent you have left us gun violence has become incredible. Mass shootings, constant murders, police brutality without paralell.
John Lewis, of our era and the Edmund Pettis Bridge, has rallied the House of Representatives to hold a house sit-in to vote on gun control. You know that this is not the Senate, no fillibuster process in the House. All is really upside down.
Never has this...