Remembering Morgan W. Brown.

By Zack Hughes

There's so much I'm going to miss about you Morgan W. Brown

I know you're in a better place now but it still doesn't take away the grieving process

You would probably not want to see any of us grieve you probably wouldn't want to see a big to do about you I seem to recall our conversations

But it still doesn't stop the grieving the many of us are feeling right now.

For me here is what I'm going to miss

Those emails that you sent you called them humor breaks or maybe they were advocacy alerts

Even recall one email that was a rebel email I won't go too deep into it but it caused a lot of fire when you sent it!

But you were doing what you thought was the right thing to do and that is what's important to understand

I will Miss and continue to honor your reminder to people in meetings that abbreviations should be spoken as words

I will miss our talks and the text that sometimes came over.

There is just so many times that we connected about the issues.

Whether it was from a service miniature pony to a major housing issue.

Or a call for change on a mental health issue.

How about the time that you called me up as I was getting ready to go to a training in Burlington and offered to do some door to door campaigning for me to get signatures for City council?

Had you not done that I would not have been able to get as far as I did in that campaign.

I had made a post late in the day that day saying that I was going to have to do a write-in campaign and you came in and said no you won't LOL

You helped get some folks together in your building to hear what I had to say while I was running for City council.

Over the years you've given me countless advice not that I always followed it LOL.

I thought back to the time I decided to take an unannounced trip to Boston and when I tried to say to people and I came back that I'd spent five hours homeless on the street you were quick to correct me and you said you had a home to go to there is a difference Zack

I'm going to miss seeing you I'm going to miss that caring advocacy in you.

I recall me and you got into one disagreement over the years but I continue to respect you and your wishes

One time unbeknownst to you or maybe I told you about it I think I told you about it I was talking to somebody on the street and I knew you and they said to me oh he likes camping. I did remember saying to them that it was different than recreational camping LOL.

I'll never forget how excited you were when you went into your apartment after 12 years of being homeless. You didn't talk much about it that was you.

But you showed pictures of your new apartment and I was just thinking you must be really excited a lot of emotions going on of course.

I think the last time I saw you was on State Street and we talked about Cleo and you told me that you needed to or were working on placing her with a neighbor and then I realized things were probably getting real as far as what you were going through and I didn't really want to believe it.

You also didn't talk much about what you were going through and neither did I ask.

I'm glad I was able to share my trip pictures and that you were able to follow it and I'm glad I was able to share pictures of blonde and you loved those or liked those.

I recall us when we first met I'm thinking it was on main Street and it was in the late 90s between 98 and 2000 somewhere in there and you and I talked about the challenges of living in an apartment versus being homeless.

For now I'm going to say this isn't goodbye but see you when my mission on this Earth is done rest in peace and power!