Graham Norris, a good friend of mine, and a very close friend of my good friend, and colleague, Greg Caws, passed away suddenly this week. On Friday he went skiing with his family, and near the end of the first run of the day, something happened. As of yet, no one knows for sure what happened, but he never woke up.

Monday night, many of his friends assembled at the Victoria General Hospital to see him off.

Graham’s passions in life were strong, simple, and many: His family, the children, sports, and helping everyone around him become better people.

Last night, a group of us who are members of the local EO chapter got together for our scheduled monthly meeting, organized by Graham. We invited a few former members to join us, and obviously we talked about Graham, his wife Martine, and children Jonathan, Philippe, and Claudia.

In keeping with the family’s wishes, I’m pleased to share with you that we’re going to set up a foundation / not-for-profit society in Graham’s memory. The society will likely somehow tie together kids, sports, and safety. Everything has happened so fast that details will come later. We purchased the domain name, www.grahamnorris.org last night, and will be adding information to it as soon as possible.

In the meantime, here’s a picture I only saw for the first time Monday. It’s from 2006, our friend Scott is driving the boat, with Graham & his dog in back. I’m way back there on the kneeboard.

There never was any slowing down.