As a tribute to Randy California,
I have culled, at random, quotes from his favorite poem.

“If”

“If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,
Or be lied about, don’t deal in lies”,

“If you can watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build “em up with worn-out tools;”

“If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run —
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – – which is more – – you’ll be a Man, my son!
-Rudyard Kiplining

And what a beautiful man you grew up to be,

– Mom

From a caring friend

In the Winter and Spring of 2005 an ucanny chain of events
guided me to Randy’s mother, Bernice Pearls, residence.
Which only reenforced what I was already witnessing……