Tony Snow

This weekend a wonderful man passed away.  His name is Tony Snow.  If you look up the term “Renaissance Man” it describes him:  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Renaissance%20man

He was a man that could do anything from slam dunk a basketball to playing a multitude of instruments to politics to philosophy to poetry writing.  And that only names a few of the things he did in his lifetime on a regular basis.

I watched 2 days of specials on him talking about his life.  What a person.  He was always smiling, even through the chemotherapy and hair loss.  And he always had such a positive attitude and outlook on life.  Wow.  That’s all I can say.  I used to watch him a lot on Fox News.  I loved watching him when he was the White House Press Secretary and how he could call the press on their $h!T in a nice way with a grin on his face.

How did he do that?  He was a nice yet firm guy.  I never once heard anybody say that they thought he was a jerk or anything.  How do you maintain that balance?  I know when I was nice people walked over me.  Then when I tried to combine nice and firm people called me that dreaded “B” word.

How can you be THAT nice and not have people walk over you?  And he influenced people.  What an incredible man.  He made people feel good about themselves.  It didn’t matter what side of the political spectrum you were, he respected you and influenced you.

I have this new start and would like to be more like the person he was.  I’m going to do all I can to be like that.  It’ll be difficult to change the person I’ve become but if I can be even a little more like him I’ll be better off and I can help people.

He was such an incredible man.  What a terrible loss for the world.