Another day to think, to pause, to ponder.

Panorama of Sycamore Park and the memorial to Karim A bit over 10 years ago I wrote a blog post that I repost all the time. Entitled "A day to think, to pause, to ponder" it was posted on my dad ' s birthday and was about the pain of him dying, by suicide, when I was in college. It was meant as a sad, melancholy post but also one about the importance of compassion and how " we can all do a little bit to improve how we treat other. " When I reposted this one time a few years ago, someone asked me if I had ever met the " Compassion Guy " who frequented downtown Davis and who had a life ' s mission of getting people to think about compassion. I told them, yes, indeed I had and I had talked to him on and off over the years about this topic at or near the farmer ' s market or at his " Compassion Corner " bench area.And thus, a few days ago, I was devastated when I found out that " Compassion Guy " , aka David Breaux, was the person whose body was found April 27 in Central Park in downtown Davis. He had been murdered. And initial reports indicated that the Police did not have any good clues as to what had happened because there were no witnesses. When I found out that this was David I posted a few things to social media because I wanted to make sure people knew that he was a good person, an interesting person, and was not just some random bit of information.Very sad and shocking. I talked to David relatively frequentlyhttps://t.co/7jLbcMtYme— Jonathan Eisen (@phylo...
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