02/19/2026
Ten years ago today this guy flew.
As his friends said and still say "no more wheels but wings"
It was a ridiculously warm 67 degree day in Feb. in Nebraska - weird warm weather, much like this week (until tonight).
Then the many stories began to pour in with infinite love, love, love, buckets of fried chicken, cards, stop ins, letters, phone calls, texts, full face and body smiles and laughs from family and friends and chosen family, bus drivers, rockers, neighbors, students, teachers, doctors, everyone who ever met him. And those who hadn't even.
So many people, so many lives he had already touched.
He had left us here to carry on without him physically present but leading the way with his spirit soul.
Infinite ripple of who he was and who he showed the world he could be.
"Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile." As always.
Today - on the anniversary of Caleb John's passing - I ask is you do something worthy of infinite love, peace, community, humaness.
You choose what you do - sing a song loud and proud, say hello to a stranger, color outside the lines - better yet make your own lines, maybe you'll plant something, maybe you can write someone an email, text or letter, call someone up just to hear their voice, say you are sorry to someone you are sorry too and let that blow away in the wind once and for all, throw a kiss to someone or something, say thank you to everyone and everything you see or meet or encounter today, leave a flower for your mail delivery person or better your trash picker upper, drive by someones house and honk and wave even if you don't know them so they know they are seen, register to vote for yourself, send in your mail in ballot, smile at someone, you choose.
Now it's your turn.
Move Caleb's legacy forward just be being you - you are enough, just as you are. Every day, every way. Show the world and the blades of grass who you are and can be.
Love and only love to you and yours. Always.
Gotta Be Me would not be without this guy - this is his legacy of the power of heart and soul and music and friendship making the lives of all that much more. Thanks CJC you are forever.
