As I was thinking over the last few weeks about my spiritual father John Paul Jackson and how much I miss him, I ran across this blog entry from 2015. I posted it about 10 days after he passed away, but it had disappeared because Patria changed website services. Thought I would repost it here just to have the archive: One of the most difficult experiences of my lifetime was standing by the side of my spiritual father as he prepared to leave this earthly realm and make the t