Heard the news this morning on social media. Still so sad.
Leonard Nimoy Passes Away
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Terribly sad news. Star Trek and him seem so inseparable that it's going to be difficult to watch him in it knowing he has passed on. He will live on in the work he left behind but I can't help feeling so sad that a hero I grew up watching has died.
Godspeed Mr. Spock. Godspeed Leonard. Thank you for every moment you have given us.
Godspeed Mr. Spock. Godspeed Leonard. Thank you for every moment you have given us.
One more video of Leonard in 1969-1970 as he appeared on a CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) show talking about the Spock Pinch during a visit to Toronto when he would be appearing at the CNE:
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categori...l/leonard-nimoy-explains-the-spock-pinch.html
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categori...l/leonard-nimoy-explains-the-spock-pinch.html
I heard the news as I walked into work, and I felt like I got punched in the stomach, but then almost immediately, I got swept up in meetings and work and one-on-one with employees, so I was distracted despite the pain lingering over my shoulder that never left me.
I got home about 20 minutes ago, and I feel an intense sense of loss.
I never met the man, but I'm in pain.
Nobody understands.
I got home about 20 minutes ago, and I feel an intense sense of loss.
I never met the man, but I'm in pain.
Nobody understands.
I understand. I feel exactly the same way. I was crying intensely earlier and thought "why the hell am I crying?" "I never even met the man"
Life seems to be about the feelings people give us when we watch them, listen to them, talk to them.
In the feelings department, Leonard Nimoy has been a close friend for decades, since I was a child.
Of course I feel crushed.
He is gone forever, and his like will never be seen again.
The good part is that I can still experience him the same way I always have anytime I want.
That particular gift will never stop giving.
It is his gift to all of us.
Spockboy
Leonard Nimoy was a fine actor and a huge part of my childhood growing up. His portrayal of Mr. Spock left a huge impression on me as a kid and fan. Up until today even. As a young black boy growing up in the early 90's with negative influences close to the vest and no real life role models I knew personally to look up to, it was people like Nimoy on shows like Star Trek that kept me in a bubble with tunnel vision. Preventing me from falling into a trap I could have very easily fell into. I almost felt like I knew the man through the simple lens of a 1960's television show in syndication. As dozens of people the last 40 plus years can attest to. He was a staple of pop culture and made it cool to be logical, and a nerd. He will be sorely missed by this planet. Live long and prosper.
....Come take my hand and walk through the clouds with me. Touch the hands of creation. Feel their warmth and glow all around you. Let it flow through you with every wisp of wind cold or warm, not knowing a dreary day. Carry it with you as your soul and guide like the ferns in the meadow of the forest of youth. Feel the tempest in your soul renewed with vigor, never worrying about that day. Weep for those who have gone but never forget that we never die as long as we remember the winds of creation through our written and retold testaments...our soul of life....
At first I read the Text from my wife, and I told myself, oh.
Then it started to sink in and the tears started flowing, the more I though about him the more I cried. Then I realized I wasn't the only one crying. I knew countless people where feeling the same way, countless people where weeping for him.
I was just about to go to work, and I wondered for a moment if I should call in and take a grieving day, same as you would loosing a parent. Took a breath, and told myself I would be ok. Then I changed clothing, instead of wearing what I had planned I put on all black as a sign of grieving. It was hard at work, I had tears at the edge of my eyes a good amount of time. But slowly, I'm learning to live with it.
None of us are alone in this sadness. Even if no one immediately around us isn't grieving, you know there are many people around the world who wept and felt very sad.
We could probably all post very long stories of how important he was to us, how he touched us. He almost was Star Trek in a way, or at least a big part of it. I think we can all be happy that we have these stories, and I think most of us would be glad to share them.
We are Spock.
Then it started to sink in and the tears started flowing, the more I though about him the more I cried. Then I realized I wasn't the only one crying. I knew countless people where feeling the same way, countless people where weeping for him.
I was just about to go to work, and I wondered for a moment if I should call in and take a grieving day, same as you would loosing a parent. Took a breath, and told myself I would be ok. Then I changed clothing, instead of wearing what I had planned I put on all black as a sign of grieving. It was hard at work, I had tears at the edge of my eyes a good amount of time. But slowly, I'm learning to live with it.
None of us are alone in this sadness. Even if no one immediately around us isn't grieving, you know there are many people around the world who wept and felt very sad.
We could probably all post very long stories of how important he was to us, how he touched us. He almost was Star Trek in a way, or at least a big part of it. I think we can all be happy that we have these stories, and I think most of us would be glad to share them.
We are Spock.
A piece of my childhood is gone forever.
When I heard that he was taken to the hospital, I hoped for the best but feared the worst. "Live Longer" I thought, but such was not the case.
Spock: "Remember."
Will do.
Spock: "Remember."
Will do.
He brought so many of us to Star Trek and thus brought so many of us together. We all have felt like outsiders at one time or another, how fitting that a man who played an outsider himself connected so many people together.
I feel like I should do something in his memory.
Don't get me wrong, I am very sad and everything that Leonard has passed away, and I mean this with the greatest of respect when I ask this, but a grieving day off work for someone you never knew personally? Isn't that a bit overboard? Again, I mean no disrespect. I just feel like that's a bit strange, is all.
