legacy

Some notes about people who have changed my life but later passed away. I think about one or more of these people every day. These losses have been extremely painful, but I rejoice in the time I had with each one of these people, and lessons learned from them.

• My father, Edward T. English. To honor him and my Mom, I host a weekly dinner with my siblings every Tuesday, and we often talk about our parents there, and what we learned from them.
• My nonprofit mentor, Thomas J. White
• My former therapist, Dr. Jack Green
• Nicholas Lambrou, my next door neighbor, and my "2nd father"
• Tracy Kidder, biographer extraordinaire

Other close friends that I have lost recently:

• Brendan Burke, my godfather and humorist
• Ed Takacs, the greatest headhunter and party thrower
• Jake Millar, podcast entrepreneur and bipolar buddy
• Leila Janah, my friend and mentor
• Paul Farmer, cofounder of PIH in Boston and Haiti
• Randal Levenson, my artist/inventor friend and mentor from Miami
• Professor Robert A. Morris, my mentor at UMASS Boston
• Ted Young, my uncle, an Admiral in the US navy
• Tenzin Samdo, the first "bar artist" I ever met, his bar was magical