My friend Jack Morison lost his battle with cancer today. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.
Jack's Memorial Service will be held in Mill Valley, CA at the Outdoor Art Club on Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 2 p.m. If you plan to attend, please email: 1) your name; 2) email address; 3) how many in your party to martinog at gmail.com.
Jack's Memorial Service will be held in Mill Valley, CA at the Outdoor Art Club on Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 2 p.m. If you plan to attend, please email: 1) your name; 2) email address; 3) how many in your party to martinog at gmail.com.
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Coruh River Turkey
Purple Voodoo
It was the simplest of gestures. I remember it like it was yesterday. Two small jabs with his index finger, without urgency, to river right. Ok, no problem I thought, stay inside on this one, no cause for alarm…right. In retrospect Jack should’ve been jumping up and down furiously pumping both arms right…but nooooo. I was chit chatting w Vince and Janet as I saw Jack’s boat slide around the corner pulling easily to the inside. I spun my boat to a downstream angle toward the right and started pulling for the inside as the current picked up. It’s getting a bit steeper now, the water picking up speed pushing to the middle. I look down stream and start to get a bit nervous…my mind flashes back to that lazy gesture. Jesus Jack, this is full on…I start cranking hard to river right but realize I had lost my angle. This is not good. I’m pulling hard now looking downstream, that’s when I see it, shit, no SHIT. I can not take my eyes off it. A huge river wide hole, defiantly a raft eater and we are headed straight for it dead sideways. Pulling in vain with all my strength I’m sure I shouted something stupid like “hang on!” that’s when the slow motion kicked in and everything got real quiet. We dropped into the hole, make that HOLE, and the only way to describe it was like one of those pipeline surfing pictures…the perfect tube. The sensation still sticks with me 16 years later. Dropping in sideways with a slipping feeling as we accelerated down to the bottom of the boateater then up the other side past vertical until bam. Slammed upside down and back into the real world, noisy, chaotic and wet! I climb onto the bottom of the boat to assess the situation. This is a big rapid and we’re not done yet. Thanks for the good times Jack… and that simplest of gestures.
shawno
I only heard a few stories of his rafting adventures - Jack was always about everyone else!
I enjoyed the gift of his friendship after he and I stood in the same lunch line at a computer software business meeting 15 years ago???
We are stunned and sad by his passing... can't quite believe it's true. Our best to his family and friends - I don't even want to contemplate how much he will be missed by all of us.
bontask
Thank you for posting the note and picture of Jack...I just happened to be looking up old friends via the internet with my daughter...I was SO stunned and saddened to see Jack's smiling face and read of his passing just last week. I knew him back in the great daze of the Stanislaus River, when he worked for OARS and I worked for ARTA...I haven't seen him in 25 years or more...but I still remember his amazing spirit and zest for life. My heart goes out to his family and friends. Gail Burton
Hi All,
Thank you for sharing your stories and memories of Jack. I just heard that the Memorial is planned for Saturday, September 13, 2008. I'll post additional information as I receive it.
Thanks again.
Martin
Jack leaves me as the sole founding member of the North Bay Procrastinator's Club. This is a club we never quite got around to launching... get it? =)
Jack embraced life like few others. He was both gracious and graceful in his fight. I will treasure his friendship and be forever grateful for his wit and wisdom.
Thanks for the laughs, the late night talks, Mt. Tam and the Dipsey Cafe! - Oh, and your technical expertise!
I just re-read a message I got from Jack on 2/16/2008.
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The last few years for me have been quite a roller coaster ride, first going through a long divorce and now just finding out I have cancer (yes, I am quite sure they are related).
First my attention was taken by the attorneys, and now it is being taken by the doctors. I am glad to say I am doing my part to keep the Economy going, at least in the legal and medical world.
I hope to hear back from you with good news about your life, business and health.
Miss you buddy.
Enjoy the moments!
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Jack had an extraordinary way to lighten a conversation and put a positive spin on almost any subject. What a great sense of humor. I will miss that even though we didn't see each other often. When we did, at business conferences and such, the meeting was always fun-er.
We spent a couple hours talking on the phone after I got this email. Even though all this was going on he was positive about getting past the cancer and looked forward to the future.
Jack was always interested in other people more than he was about himself. What a great quality.
My friend Jack will always have a place in my heart. I will miss him.
I hope someone will let his children know how special their Father was to a lot of people.
And, Jack, I will enjoy the moments I have remaining on this earth. Thanks for the reminder!
Ron
One of the most positive, uplifting
people that I have been fortune enough to meet.
The world needs a lot more Jack's.
Thanks Jack!
The first things I think of when reminiscing about Jack is his sense of humor and his genuine care for you and what was going on in your life. It was never about Jack.
What a fun guy to hang with.
You will be missed, buddy
Thanks to all for sharing their thoughts here. OK, I am going to share my top ten things I lost when Jack left. I am better at lists than prose so this works for me. I bet everyone can identify with at least a few of these.
10. my CRM conference buddy
9. a source of ideas on how to do business better
8. a free place to stay any time I might find myself in SF
7. late nights talking about 'toll booths' and CRM software
6. my business clone on the left coast (I have to say it was weird walking through his office and finding all the same junk there that I have in my office with the same amount of dust on top.)
5. no more 'donkey' jokes (don't ask about this one). We seemed to have a lot of inside jokes.
4. lifetime supply of free entrepreneurial seizures
3. an excellent guide to humility and putting others first (I heard he was a good river guide too. I suspect each requires similar skills.)
2. lessons in how to breathe like you mean it
1. my good friend
I know he will be missed because he is missed already. Thanks for the picture, its really perfect.
Harry
Is so much to miss about Jack.
I have first meet him in Albania, 16 years ago, and to me it seems like yesterday. the memories and the stories we had were incredible, irriplaceable , like he is.
I miss his voice and the power of his heart , .
He wasn`t scared of death, and that is what he writes in one of his late massages......
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"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
....and his attitude, which he writes .....
4) My Attitude
Quickly, in closing, my MIND and Attitude are awesome. I knew this body came with a lease from the Landlord early on. As a Buddhist, I do Death Meditations everyday.
In my training, Death is the ultimate Adventure Travel Trip. It is the opportunity for Full Enlightenment, and I prepare for it everyday, down to the final days of dissolution, and where I will be and how that will be managed by those around me at that time, up to and including the week after my passing, and the cremation that will follow.
There is no fear of death here. My fears lie with my boys, my family and all those I love.
Jack I miss you dearly.
While I had not seen Jack in years I will miss him enormously. He was one of the kindest people I'd ever met. If his sons ever read this please know that your father displayed the best of all of us. He was the best of all of us. May he be in a better place.
Be wish Yoshi.
Namaste Jack.
meghan
hi, any news on Jacks memorial? I'd like to book a flight if this is happening. thanks
Hi All,
The Memorial is confirmed for Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 2 p.m. in Mill Valley, CA.
Martin
Hi All,
Jack's Memorial Service will be held in Mill Valley, CA at the Outdoor Art Club on September 13, 2008 at 2 p.m. If you plan to attend, please email: 1) your name; 2) email address; 3) how many in your party to martinog at gmail.com. There is an Evite site with additional information.
If any of Jack's friends have pictures of Jack for his Memorial Service and/or stories, please send it to martinog @ gmail.com.
Martin
Hi ShawnO,
I wanted to thank you for your great Jack Rafting story.
Martin
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