Oct 8 2011
Thanks, Steve
This week we lost one of the great hearts and minds of our generation. Steve Jobs.
Sometimes we connect with someone over little things that with others we wouldn’t find significant. Well, here are mine.
I went to his high school, and remember my math teacher telling us about the mischief the two Steves got up to.
Our family had an Apple when we were growing up…. which would not be significant today, but this was (ahem) a REALLY long time ago. We were pretty early adopters as Mac users…so we have fond memories of many, many versions of the Mac. I even got to play with an old NeXT computer at my office.
Mike gave me an engraved ipod as a wedding present. He went to MacWorld several times and saw Steve make some of his historic announcements.
I recall hearing his Stanford graduation speech when I was working graduation (though of course as staff prepping for a dept. graduation, you never get to see the stadium ceremony. Every year we would tune in to it via the radio broadcast while we set up our chairs and diplomas.)
When Steve got cancer, I connected with him on that level…as my mom got it around the same time as he did. I think part of my grief over him is related to my grief over her.
I know in someone else these things might not resonate…but in Steve, it made us feel like we knew him a little bit, like he was one of us and we were all in this together.
So today we went by his house and left a tribute. Thanks for all you gave us Steve, we will miss you.
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