It's with some sadness I wish you an enjoyable holiday season, and God's blessings in 2016! A most loving person and good friend Howard passed away on Xmas Eve. He has been and will remain an inspiration for doing good works for me and many others! I am so very grateful to have met him, and shared great times with him, and with Lisa and Sidney, and his other family members and good friends! A caring, loving, humble, simply an honourable man Howard Hacker! Knowing this outstanding gentle man, he would want us to carry on merrily and smartly now and in the future. I know he would want us to enjoy life to its fullest without him as he did so many times whether he was present or not at a particular music, sporting, or boating event, or lime!
I know too that he would like us to incorporate the Nguza Saba as part of the guiding philosophy of life partly because he had a great appreciation of the cultural arts, and mostly because he was a person of sound principles!
Tomorrow Sunday is his funeral in Toronto. Tomorrow many of us will celebrate Kujichagulia. Howard too had Self-Determination. Today is celebration of Umoja. He too believed in Unity! As we continue to celebrate Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity) and Imani (Faith) over the next six days, we will give thanks for the wonderful life of Howard, and we certainly will not forget how beautifully he touched our hearts, and minds now, next year, and beyond!
Peace,
alex
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