Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.
This memorial website was created to remember our dearest Charles (Chuck) McEwen who was born in Akron, Ohio on February 29, 1948 and passed away on June 25, 2010.
You will live forever in our memories and hearts.
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!"
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear the load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says "There, she is gone!" There are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout:
"Here she comes!"
And That is dying.
---Henry Van Dyke
Be open to your dreams people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
---David Assael
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