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QUORUM SENSING, MUSINGS WITH MIKE, THE OVERSTORY, A BIGGER STORY

Published June 24, 2020 Blog, Casey And Friends Comments
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Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things. Richard Powers, The Overstory Quorum Sensing I had a thought a few years ago: Why did Man evolve into the species it is today, seemingly so far advanced intellectually and socially beyond any other? I had read Yuval Noah Harari’s books, Sapiens […]

ANGELS AMONG US

Published March 20, 2020 Blog, Casey And Friends Comments
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Introduction. My friend and muse, Mike Lueth, has shared with us another beautiful story that will touch us all, deeply. Thank-you, Mike, and God bless you. Angels Among Us, by Mike Lueth My nephew, Scott, and I were deep in the northern Wisconsin woods hunting deer. It was a cloudy Thanksgiving Day back in 1981. […]

HERE TODAY…

Published February 22, 2020 Blog, Casey And Friends Comments
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I was walking on Solana Beach Wednesday afternoon heading north. It was crisp, cool, and crystal clear. The tide was super low, and the tidepools and reefs were exposed. Tabletops, a popular surf spot, was firing and the score of surfers were shredding it. I saw two people—a man and a woman-raking the sand. My […]

MY HOT WATER BOTTLE

Published February 12, 2020 Blog, Casey And Friends Comments
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And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer Isaiah 65:24 It was just before Christmas 2010 and a little over two years since Emily Sue Buckberry cold-called me and returned the letter from my father she had found in Coalwood WV forty years earlier. I’d been thinking about all of […]

FLOWERS ON THE RAILINGS

Published February 11, 2020 Blog, Casey And Friends Comments
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Tribe member, Christopher Ramirez (I’M CHRISTIAN) sent me this last week. I found this article on Yahoo News the other day. It is such a great story of how our acts of remembering/celebrating the ones who have left this world are seen by and impact others. I thought it was such a sweet gesture from […]

THIS JUST IN

Published February 8, 2020 Blog, Casey And Friends Comments
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In 2016 we shared this post about the lengths to which our loved ones will go to leave signs for us. No easy feat! In the TRUST ME section of the post my childhood chum from Itasca, Mike Lueth, told us about first finding quarters in the strangest of places, and then dimes-lots of dimes- […]

THE CHOICE WE MAKE

Published March 21, 2019 Blog, Casey And Friends, Uncategorized Comments
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A friend of mine turned me on to a book written by Tom Zuba, Permission to Mourn. It’s a quick read—a little over 100 pages, double space, written in the style of poetic bullet points. I highly recommend this book, especially for us guys—not because it’s an “easy” read—yes, Tom makes his points quickly, […]

JOHN AND BEN-FRIENDS FOREVER

Published March 1, 2019 Casey And Friends, first-9 Comments
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Casey’s Introduction: Melinda Bay and I grew up a few houses from one another on Greenview Rd. in Itasca, Illinois. She was a year ahead of me in school. As I did with all of my childhood friends, I lost touch with Melinda after my father’s death and our bailout from Itasca back […]

OUT OF TRAGEDY-SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

Published February 15, 2019 Blog, Casey And Friends Comments
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I’d forgotten about this. Back in 2012 Allen Matkins, the law firm I was with for over 27 years, commissioned Liz Hergott to interview me and put together a video the firm shared on their community outreach website. It had been less than four years since our son, Jimmy, had been struck and […]

WHEN IS IT TOO LATE TO SEND A CONDOLENCE CARD?

Published December 5, 2018 Blog, Casey And Friends, Casey's Stories Comments
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WHEN IS IT TOO LATE TO SEND A CONDOLENCE CARD? Of course, the answer is “never.” That was my first thought when I received an email from a Rabbi in New York I have never met. But then, I realized this seemingly random connection had a much deeper and more profound meaning. I will pick […]

Write Me Something Beautiful Authors - Casey and Jimmy Gauntt

Casey Gauntt

is a retired attorney and former senior executive of a major San Diego real estate company. He lives in Solana Beach, California, with his wife, Hilary. Casey grew up in Itasca, Illinois, graduated Lake Park High School in 1968, and received B.S., JD and MBA degrees from the University of Southern California.

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Jimmy Gauntt

was born and raised in Solana Beach and graduated from Torrey Pines High School in 2002. A prestigious Trustee Scholar at the University of Southern California, he majored in English and Spanish. He authored six plays, five screenplays, and a multitude of poems and short stories. Beginning in 2010, the USC English Department annually bestows the Jimmy Gauntt Memorial Award—aka “The Jimmy”—to the top graduates in English. Jimmy passed over to the other side in 2008 at age 24.