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Paul Simons
Reading the many warm remembrances of Danny Brown I wonder if there's any truth to the idea that it takes a person's death to bring out the feelings people had but didn't express during his or her life. I was in a class or two with Danny, didn't know him well, wasn't in the same type of activities, but to go from the particular to the general I wonder, over the years, among the - what, about 350 people - what words of praise were never spoken, what secret crushes stayed secret, and conversely what callous insults were never answered. There were the well-known high school romances between the football stars and the cheerleaders, the cavalier comments with the racist or other elitist undertones, and everything in between most of which I could never imagine. The bottom line is, if it's good do it now; if it's bad forgive and forget. Probably in many cases these things have already happened, but it's still worth a moment's thought.
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