He gifted his skateboards, boogie boards, and surfboard to his friends. He made hard choices over what to keep, what to take, what to give away, swallowing hard, often, in his new 12 year old throat. He packed and repacked and waded through his list of lasts until they were all scribbled out… last swim, last surf, last bike ride, last hike, last stream cliff dive, last beach fire, last goodbye to friends, last sunset, last aloha oe

He made hard decisions to turn his face to the window during take off, to hide his brand new 12 year old heavy tears from my old grandmother ones.