Vee’s Inspiration September 7, 2024
A Prayer of Thanks…
I have to say thank you Lord. You understood that a repeat of last week might have shaken me more than a few days of emotional and mental recovery could have repaired. So I am thankful that you delivered me home so I could be with family when I received the news. And even with that support, my world is shaken again.
A Statement of Mourning and Gratitude to Walt
I scream a silent agonizing scream that started last year May when I heard the words that manifested into a final reality yesterday. For over a year I said a silent prayer everyday that God’s miracle would cover you and heal you and allow you to stay. This feeling that I feel is not the first time I’ve experienced terrible loss… I think of the memory of the beautiful souls that I carry with me everyday. But this is a terrible loss that hits a little different, this is the loss of someone who was like my professional father figure. Sure we were only 5 years apart in biological years and 10 years apart in our Waffle Years, but you have been a major part of my professional journey and success for the last 22 years. Over the years our relationship and your mentorship grew from a distance professional relationship to a close personal friend and mentor. The one that played the joke on me with Dave in the Boardroom when I was promoted to SVP 13 years ago. And you and Dave again played another joke on me in the commissary of unit 500 when I was promoted to EVP 11 years ago. And the time you and I were on the Private Jet and you asked me, “What do you think about Real Estate?” And my old designation of Executive Vice-President of Operations changed to Executive Vice President of Operations and Real Estate. So you see, like a father you helped and watched me grow and develop into the businessman I am today. I will miss your professional clarity. Your quick humor and your easy smile was always something I would look forward to. Your remarkable intellect which was only second to your masterful ability to successfully run our business for so many years. But more significantly, I will miss you my friend. The times you listened to me talk about my professional frustrations and how you always asked about Anissia first, I know she was your favorite… come to think of it, she’s everyone’s favorite, and my Dad second. And I will never forget, you and the Board approved the use of the Private Jet with 8 members of my Waffle House Family to fly to New York to support MY Family when Mom passed. So my Friend, I will carry you with the memory of those other beautiful souls I carry with me everyday. I won’t ever forget you and I am forever grateful that our personal and professional lives crossed on this journey we call life.
I pray for comfort for your family and I’m thankful that the pain you’ve been dealing with for the past year and a half has been quieted. Rest in peace my Friend.
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