Met Tom Johnson a couple nights ago on the back porch.
Gonna talk about him because his name is so generic.
When i stepped onto the Lodge’s back porch, i noticed amongst all the people at the tables he had his shoes off.
This is an almost obvious signal that you had a long day’s hike, and your feet feel better when you take your shoes off.
So i approached him and asked him about his shoes being off and what he did today. But not before i walked to the far end of the back porch deck and had a 30-minute conversation with two other visitors. On the walk back to the other end of the back porch he was still there. Shoes still off.
We had a brief conversation.
Then the next night he was again sitting on the 200’-long back porch.
His name is Tom. His wife is Michelle. They have two teenage boys.
Tom was an accountant and retired recently at 47.
Long story short, he retired because he has stage four pancreatic cancer.
He’s lost 70 pounds recently.
His loosefitting shirt disguised his thinning frame. i would guess he’s 6’2”. He said he was overweight at 240 pounds. Now he’s 170. It wasn’t until I hugged him at the end of our night then i could feel his shoulder blades when we hugged each other.
Made it back to the room at midnight.
Still off-balance from his transparency.
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