A wonderful Facebook exchange began when Kali, a a former student, posted a photo of herself and her late grandfather, trap shooting.  I think, to use a trite phrase I would never tolerate from any student, that he looks like a really cool guy. Look at their faces and you can see they loved each other–and there’s plenty to love about Kali.

She was my student, I was a sponsor in her confirmation class at St. Patrick’s, and she is an outstanding young woman.  You can tell, too, that they loved being together.

Sometimes, and I had this experience with a photo of Joey Rodgers’s Grandpa, a World War II Marine, you can see a man and know instinctively that you would’ve loved him, too.  That’s what struck me about this photograph. Kali has just lost him, but another reason I know he was a good man is that he’s…