He will be remembered gratefully by family and friends for his unconditional love, loyalty, and friendship; values that shaped his life.
Cold Shower I have a buddy whose friendship I value.
Chappell 1995 includes friendship, aesthetic value, pleasure and the avoidance of pain, physical and mental health and harmony, reason, rationality, and reasonableness, truth and the knowledge of it, the natural world, people, fairness, and achievements (p. 43).
Daniel Gordis ("A Friendship of Values, Not Convenience," Op-Ed, Feb. 9) writes that Israel shares the democratic political values of the United States, and complains that the Obama administration has not insisted that the Palestinians recognize Israel as "a Jewish state".
But his intimate friends are comparatively few, consisting generally of old cronies whose friendship he values even though no newspaper desk has ever heard of them.
Mr. Mekel noted that the events in question related to the early 1980s, and said that relations between Israel and the United States had "always been based on true friendship, shared values and interests".
As a measure of closeness to each friendship, the values of intimacy are recorded every day.
So it seems the moral of this story is to cultivate friendships and value family.
This was the period which, to an extraordinary degree, conditioned the rest of his life and kept him close to Glasgow and the friendships he valued so much.
