TRAVIS PRICE

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TRAVIS PRICE November 10, 1987 - January 8, 2004 I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was, let it be spoken without effect, without a trace of shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you, for an interval, Somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Our big boy is forever loved and deeply missed by his family and friends.
Publish Date: Jan 7, 2012

TRAVIS PRICE Gone From My Sight I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads it's white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. The ship is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch until at length the ship hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Just at the moment when someone at my side says: There he is gone! there are other eyes watching him coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: Here he comes! He is gone from my sight. That is all. He is just as large in mast and hull and spar as he was when he left my side. His diminished size is in my sight, not in him. Travis is forever bold and beautiful and present in our lives - Forever loved and deeply missed, Aunty Weeze and Matthew.
Publish Date: Jan 7, 2012

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Jan 07, 2012