R.I.P. Rick Bell

Amazingly, another young cancer-death.
Rick Bell, the very recent husband of my childhood friend Beth Tener, passed away last week after an often painful battle with cancer.
Rick was a facinating and endearing man who i knew only a little but was touched by him and by the way he was in love with Beth.
Here's a dream I had the week before he died:
Rick and Beth and Nate and I were swimming or in
small boats out in the ocean somewhere far away like out in the South
Pacific exploring islands. They were all the sort of normal nice
tropical isles you'd expect and we were turning back, but then rick
showed us the way through a channel to a most amazing island washed in
beautiful light and peacefulness unlike anything we'd seen and there was
no question we had to go there! I think it was a bit prophetic. more
than being about beth, nate or I, it was about rick showing us this
amazing place he had found.