I used to work with Leonard at Lucid.  I remember him as a man with
passion and optimism.  He was brilliant, sure, but he knew that
brilliance wasn't enough to create happiness, and he strove -- then,
when I worked with him, and in the years after -- to find happiness in
more and more of the life around him and to embrace that joy.

I knew him to be generous, enthusiastic, and honest.  I valued that I
could trust him to tell it to me straight, whatever it was.

I understand that shortly before he died, he asked that his survivors
not mourn him if he died in a helicopter crash.  I wonder if this was
his way of saying it's more important to live fully than to live safely.

In any case, I will have to mourn, at least some.  After that, well,
I'll try to remember him flying, having a great time, and living life as
fully as possible.

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