My friend, Geoff Shattock, wrote a moving tribute to my late father-in-law, Sam Jacobs. My emotions would not permit me to read this at the service today, so I share it here.
For Sam
It’s not easy to be a man
A father or a son
There is no blueprint
Scheme or plan
No race that can be won
Perhaps you simply make it up
Take it steps in time
Follow in your father footprints
Drink from ancient cup
Try to make it rhyme
Looking to your God above
You strain to hear your call
Get it right or get it wrong
Covering all with love
You raise and take your fall
Four offsprung is a legacy
A chance to leave a mark
Indelibly inscribed with care
Through agony and ecstasy
In lightness over dark
So your time has come to leave
No stage craft or false make ups
Just authentic scripts and lines
Dignified reprise
Farewell good man Sam Jacobs
---From Geoff who never met you but saw your legacy
Saturday, August 23, 2014
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