Tom and Bonnie
Life is busy, and life is sophisticated. Most of the time we do things for today or tomorrow. Somehow we don't even have a chance to think about what we need and how do we get there. It really is my pleasure to get to know him because he showed me a way of great life could possibly be as an ordinary human being.
I am thankful for the time we spent together. But I don't miss Glenn. I don't have to. He is with me, as always.
Glenn was a wonder.
Glenn was a wonder.
He demonstrated a unique and unlikely combination all the years we knew him: mischievous provocateur and earnest listener.As a teacher, he liked to raise hackles just enough to boost young people to their better levels of thinking.He did that as a friend and neighbor, too, but with a detective’s interest, investigating a new viewpoint enough to accurately weigh it on the scale of rationality.
Those lucky to have been in classes with devoted educators forget neither them nor the stirring experiences that made them unforgettable.Having Glenn and Sue as neighbors – and as mentors to our sons and all the neighborhood kids on Renfrew Avenue – regularly fomented the idea that thinking can be fun, such that it became a norm to grapple with hard problems even in a brief exchange, in the hope that knowledge could be widened and deepened sufficiently to yield a solution or two.In today’s new normal, it will be comforting (if not vital) to rely on this particular Palmer method for rigor.In Glenn’s memory, we will try.
With much love to Sue,
Kent Ashworth and Alison Cumming
We love you ❤️
Pete, Jody, Dylan and Tyler