Monthly Archives: August, 2014

The Passing of Robin Williams

I haven’t posted in a while and I ran across this wonderful post and felt moved to share it:

servingothersblog.com

imageThere is something about Robin’s passing that has really affected me, and I am struggling to understand what and why. I never knew him personally, yet somehow I felt that I did.

Perhaps it is the paradox that was Robin Williams: that behind his unique and exceptional comedy, there was such sadness and darkness. How could someone so funny and full of life be so tortured and in such pain?

As my blog friend Lorrie Beauchamp says below: β€œcreative genius and mental anguish are two sides of the same coin.” This was especially, and tragically true of Robin.

The word β€œsadness” keeps coming up in much of what is being said and written about him. And for those he left behind, it is very sad. We will never enjoy him again. But it is not sad for him. He is no longer anguished or troubled or tortured. He is at…

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