CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

I woke up this morning to the sad news from several readers that beloved longtime JMG community member Safari has passed away unexpectedly, apparently only a few days after his final posting here.

As many of you know, Safari was a cheerful guy who enjoyed funny wordplay, sharing his cooking, photos of his cat, and his adventures with his students as an instructor in higher education.

To my knowledge, Safari, who used a Barbara Eden avatar, never shared his real name here on JMG. Because of that and also because we don’t know who he may have been out to, I’m going to respect his privacy in this remembrance.

But I think it’s OK, if any of you are so inclined, to remember him with a donation to his local animal shelter, as his family suggested in his obituary.