Here is the Southern Colorado AIDS Project table, although in all honesty it is now known as Southern Colorado Health Network operating as SCAP or vice versa. I forget. When I started my volunteer work there more years ago than I like to admit it was SCAP and so that is how I will remember it and that is the name I will use because it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks. Arf! Arf!
Starting with the back row we have John Mark Hild, minister at the Metropolitan Community Church here in our fair city. Next is me and then my com padre, Aaron. Aaron is my buddy and makes me laugh like a loon! Not often I find someone with a mind that works like mine! See the back row all has on the Focus shirt. We do that so we remember who we are.
On the front row on the left is the lovely Linda Lorraine, SCAP case manager and other things. She is our stabilizing force and we love her. She is always there when we need her, and she is there when we do not need her, and when we need her, but don't know we need her. The woman is what you call "devoted". That happens in this business. Show up a few times and pretty soon you feel like you are needed!
And last but certainly not least is Bill Sharpton. He works in the Colorado Springs office which is our boss. I do not know exactly what his title is, but do know he is single! His sister was a very good friend of mine and I miss her so much. Somewhere I have pictures of Marty and the big red turkey that liked to come visit at my house, especially when Marty was there. That turkey loved that girl and tried to set on her lap and I have pictures of that little endeavour.
OK, there you have us in all our glory. Motley looking crew that we are! Hey, we try! If we could clone these four people here we could set this world on fire because these are some of the best Colorado has to offer and I am damn glad to be standing in the middle of the finest Colorado has to offer!
It seems as I wind this down that I have been given a most rare opportunity to work side by side with some of the greatest people on this earth. In all my years of bopping around with the SCAP crowd, the Pueblo Community Health Center, Pueblo Health Department, the Gay Community..........I am sorry! The whole of Southern Colorado is tied together and I can not name names without missing some one or some place. Just know if you are reading this, Lou Mercer loves everyone of you and I thank God every day that he put everyone of you in my path!
Together we are going to fight the good fight and since we are all winners, you know what that means!
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