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Remembering Grandpa Tractor - George Homula

Just last week I announced that I would be writing again.  My intention was to release my first post since last summer later this afternoon.  Over the weekend my Grandfather, George Homula, passed away at age 93.  Rather than make that first post, I hope you will forgive me and indulge me as I spend a few minutes remembering him. 

My Grandfather was a strong and hard working man who I always looked up to, loved and respected.  He was a simple man really, someone who did not need the excesses of this world or anything more than what he had to be happy.  He was always so very healthy, vibrant and alive and as a young boy I looked at him and thought him larger than life.  He lived a long and healthy life (93 years) which, in some small way, takes some of the edge off the pain of losing him.

 

I am, in part, named after him and for that I am immensely honored and proud. When his wife (my Grandmother Helen) died far too young, he knew the hurt that caused for me and my sister and showed us love like he never did prior to that day. After she passed Grandpa really went out of his way to spend more time with us and never missed an opportunity to tell us how much he loved us, something that was hard for him to share prior to my Grandmothers death. This man, who found it so hard to express love and emotion, put aside his difficulty with showing love and emotion to give it to his Grandchildren when he knew we needed it.  My Grandmother was a very kind and sensitive woman and somehow my Grandfather knew that after she died he had to fill in for that in some way.  He did! 

Don't Call It A Comeback

Yes, I have completely let this blog become dormant but it's time to come back.  I am so very sorry to all of you who read this blog regularly for going off the radar for so long.  I am not going to offer up a bunch of excuses or reasons for the blackout but suffice to say business, family and other matters have been all consuming and I just wasn't managing my time well enough to write and contribute anything meaningful. 

I found it can be healthy to disappear for a while.  I know, for me at least, it was important to get away from writing and being so public.  I felt I had overdosed on being public for so long.  Don't get me wrong, being recognized and talked about can be cool at times and it certainly helps generate business but it can just be overwhelming and cause one to lose perspective.  That happened to me.  I lost some perspective on the things that are most important to me.  I am somewhat ashamed to admit that publicly but I have always been very transparent here and elsewhere so why should I hold back now.  Trying to get information out on blogs, tweets, facebook etc can sort of become who you are.  Being the person people look to for information and expertise, while I enjoy that, can start to become all you are about and nothing else.

More after the jump.