Charlie understood that a grandparent's role is to convey excitement for living. And that, despite all the hells and heavens of life, you can live well, because at least one person has done it before. For many of Charlie's formative years, his mother was in a coma due to a failed experimental treatment. He was by her side every week, while also building his life. Moving away after high school, he rooted in one place for life, with a vision and love for community, in the deepest sense. He loved the simple as well as the political, his family life organized his perspective, he tended the inner and the outer man, a man with integrity, at once common and spectacular.
He was a regular guy.
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