[Vision2020] A sad message

[Joan Opyr]

Dear Visionaries:

I have some very sad news to impart.  Yesterday afternoon, Carl 
Westberg's cat, Squeak, died of kidney failure at the age of 20.  He 
was Carl's best pal for the better part of two decades and a true 
personality.  Everyone who knew Squeak loved him, and Carl is 
devastated.  For every pet owner, I believe there's one special animal, 
an irreplaceable soul-mate, who enriches your life and whose loss you 
cannot bear.  For Carl, that animal was Squeak.  I can only say how 
sorry I am that Squeak has gone, but I know that he loved Carl to 
pieces and that there was nowhere Squeak would rather have been and no 
one he'd rather have spent his twenty years with than our own dear 
Brother Carl.

Understandably, Carl will not be doing the radio show today.  The grief 
is still far too fresh.  But I will play a song for Carl and Squeak, 
one that isn't a typical song of mourning but that sums up the 
relationship Carl had with this one-of-a-kind cat.  I'll be playing 
Janis Joplin's "Piece of my heart."

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com