It's been sunny and cold here in the Pacific North West. A coworker who moved to Seattle for the mild winters joked that he feels ripped off.

JM has passed away. I met JM when I first moved to Seattle. We had both moved to Seattle from the same area of Canada and ended up on the same hockey team.

We kept in touch even after I stopped playing hockey.

The husband met JM in the rooms of AA and briefly sponsored him. JM eventually decided that AA was not for him. 

That brief story tells so much about JM. 

JM died of some sort of respiratory failure, though we don't now the specifics. An autopsy is forthcoming. I'm not going to speculate until I learn back about that.