'John'

We had an hour together yesterday afternoon at local coffee shop and got caught up on the months since his son's murder. He continues to experience bad times and some bad days but I'm pleased to say he's handling it all very well. He and his wife have been working through things themselves without any formal counselling. I suppose when you get to John's age (late 60's) you expect to lose friends and relatives along the way but nothing can possibly prepare you for something like this. In a perfect world no parent would ever have to bury their child, even an adult one.

John met us at our outside meeting last night, got reaquainted with a few gents he knows and we sat together. He's planning to come to the in-house meeting tonight; says he misses the homelike atmospere of 'the house'. It's a positive sign that he feels like socializing again - good on him. (BTW - he's remained sober through all this; kudos)