Anthony Bourdain dead at 61

Sad to hear this about Mr. Bourdain! And sad to hear about Kate Spade a few days earlier! Both millionaires! Certainly proves that inner peace and happiness can be elusive, despite having more wealth than most people! Let us pray for their souls!

He needed to listen to music to get him through the hard times. Sad.

Anthony was good for the planet. By bringing us along to places many of us would dare go, he introduced us to other cultures and invited us to understand and appreciate others...“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
- Mark Twain

It is amazing how true Mark Twain’s words resonate today as the days they were first penned, thanks for that! Yes, Anthony really brought that realization to all of us through his travels and great gift of tying things together to give us a sense of our human commonality. This guy is going to be sorely missed, particularly in that respect in a country and world that needs more of it.