In Closing, Maintaining the Legacy

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ANGELA’S POSTS ON FB

June 1st, 2017

One of my favorite things about Bryan was his sense of humor. Every Saturday, he'd turn on SNL from wherever he was, and I'd turn it on wherever I was, and we'd text each other our favorite jokes. We watched the last Correspondents' Dinner together and laughed the whole time. He was always recommending stand up specials for me to watch and sending me tweets he found funny. This wonderful video from Lonely Eskimo Productions (Bryan loved working with them by the way) shows Bryan's goofy, joyous side. I can't believe it's been two weeks without you Bo. You'll forever be missed.

 

LEP TRIBUTE VIDEO

 

JUNE 18th, 2017

Today is one month since Bryan passed away and this month has shown me a lot about my family, especially my dad. He's been nothing but strength and love for this family. He'll never know how much that means to me, and how much that meant to Bryan. Happy Father's Day to the best dad!

 

June 30th, 2017

In memory of Bryan, I'm learning to use his camera. Here are a few photos from my week so far in China. I'll never be as good as the Maestro (as my dad calls him), but I hope I can show everyone the world through his lens.

 

July 18th, 2017

It's been two months since my brother passed away and I'm missing him everyday. One of my favorite things about him is that when I wanted to do something, the answer was always yes. We went to concerts, football and basketball games, countless new restaurants, and even Wrestlemania together. Today I'm thankful for the 24 years I got to spend exploring the world with him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAINTAINING THE LEGACY

 

-       How can you help?  OK as I start to wrap up this story, my goal is

to maintain Bryan's legacy as an individual. OK, here's a couple things that

we are doing. Of course publishing this book is something that I think will

help carry on his legacy. It's funny when I would go off on tirades about

oh, just about anything Bryan would always say hey dad you need to write a

book. Well here it is here's the book, and what more meaningful of the story

can I tell them the story of my son. 

 

 

We're working on establishing a scholarship in Bryan's name to the LSU. By

the time this book is published we should have awarded at least the first

year. The scholarship is going to be associated to film studies and then

individual dad received it shut him body Bryan's passion for media. At the

time of putting this together we have met with LSU and are establishing the

particulars of the scholarship.  More to come via various venues.

 

 

 

I say that I have no regrets but the truth is I do have a few…

 

 

-       I wish more than anything that I could have been with him in his

last few minutes.  I’d give anything to have that time with him. It hurts me

to think that he went through any significant pain in his last minutes of

his life. I think about that time in the hospital over and over and over

again and I pray that his transition from this life to eternity was not

painful.

 

Not timed to regret but ‘what if?’ I heard someone say that if they had any superpower, it would be time travel.  I agree, if I had the ability to time travel, I’d time travel my own life, back to Bryan’s birth. I’d not go back with the goal of changing anything, just to relive the time with him.  

 

 

-       I wish that he could have become a father, that way, he would know

just how much I loved him.  I told Bryan often how much I loved him because

I really wanted him to know that. I think that in our society dad's don't

communicate their love, therefore the love of God to their children and to

their family like they should.  There are of course various love languages,

and various ways to communicate. I chose to communicate mine with Bryan by

simply telling him, hey man I love you. Of course I would demonstrate that

as well in our conversations and in our interactions. 

 

 

I know that Bryan knows that I love him but if he would've become a father

he would've had so much more of an appreciation of how her father loves his

child. 

 

 

Our last communication was via text.  I was watching a UFC fight on the

evening of May 17 it was a classic fight, Conor McGregor was pummeling one

of his many victims (ok, I’m a bandwagon McGregor fan).  I meant to text Bryan and

tell him to go to YouTube and find that particular fight.  I recall falling

asleep and not and not sending the text that evening. I woke up the next

morning and I thought about Bryan and Larrielle when I woke up. I sent him a

one liner, simply saying hey, I'm thinking about you. 

 

PHOTO OF TEXT 

 

 

The good news is in Bryan's last few hours, he knew that I was thinking

about him. Well, I'm here to say I'll be thinking about you, big guy for the

rest of my life. I love you more than I can describe and perhaps more than

you'll ever know. Bryan, I love you

 

 

So… what is God saying, what is my and our testimony? 

 

I can say with assurance that Bryan honored his Creator.  Ecclesiastes 12:1

(Amp) says: Remember [thoughtfully] also your Creator in the days of your

youth [for you are not your own, but His], before the evil days come or the

years draw near.

 

At this point, not to be anticlimactic but to be frank, I don’t know... I

don’t know what the end of the story is.  I want more than anything to ask

and have the question answered; Why?  Why so young? Why now? What are You

saying God?  

 

I don’t have the answer now, and don’t know if I ever will but I, we’ve have

to press forward, continue to march and continue to work.  There is much to

be done, to honor God by honoring Bryan and to honor Bryan by honoring my

family and to preserve the legacy and work that my son has started in the

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