7/23: fr. jack

I found out today that Father Jack, a family friend and colleague of my father's, passed away yesterday--certainly not a good thing.  But all my memories of Fr. Jack are good.  He would be kind when my siblings and I dropped in at my father's campus office, which Fr. Jack shared.  He was witty, as I learned when I got older.  He acted on the stage with convincing and compelling abandon.  He owned his actions in a way that has stuck with me as a model.  I am grateful that I knew him and that I got to be touched by his goodness.