Some people have a hard life, and it can help to bring me out of my occasional, indulgent self pitying reveries, when I see that some of those folk, despite hardships that I can’t even imagine, stay good and true till the very end.

I heard recently from my friend and Homesong supporter Steve Byrne, that one of life’s beautiful souls, Nick Greenwood, recently passed away. He wasn’t a man I knew incredibly well, but everything I saw and heard about him spoke of a man with the kindest of hearts, the gentlest of spirits, only lacking the proverbial bad bone in his body.

He often had a very tough time of it, and the words “rest in peace” couldn’t be more meaningful, more appropriate, or more strongly wished for, than for a man like Nick.

The world could use a lot of more people like him. A good man.