Said goodbye to Tom Stofka today. His funeral was the first Catholic one that I have ever attended. Literally hundreds of people were there, with Parks employees filling the church pews all the way to the back. Across the street from the church, a forestry climber & pruner truck was parked with lettering that read "We Love You Tom Stofka." An honor guard of Parks supervisors and enforcement officers stood at attention at the front doors. The priest and Commissioner Benepe both spoke exceptionally well in their eulogies. Tom will certainly be missed. He was a highly thoughtful and insightful individual. He and his wife would leave notes to each other every so often with positive affirmations on life. The day that he died, his wife found a note from him that he apparently wrote that morning before he left for work. A coincidence or did he have an inkling that something might happen? This is what he wrote...

- Want more for others than yourself
- Be an appreciator
- Stay in rapport with source energy
- Understand resistance
- Contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you want to create
- Meditate connected to source
- Stay matched with the field of intention
- Think from the end - visualize results
- You can resolve a problem by condemning it
- Be in a constant state of gratitude
- Practice radical humility

Thank you Tom for leaving us with those final, valuable words. And thank you for living the life that you led.