RIP JW

After 3-years of making this blog private access only I am finally able to open it to the public again.  After a year of living with the safety and security of distance in Germany, just last week the person who caused my life to get flipped upside down three years ago took his own life in the attic of his house while the police were trying to serve an arrest warrant:

http://democratherald.com/news/local/man-found-dead-while-being-sought-by-police/article_44e2cd84-e7c9-5405-82ae-c41f8b09d22b.html

I am still in a bit of shock over this news but feel both sad for him and his desperate last choice, as well as a great sense of relief that I no longer will have that gnawing fear of an encounter in the back of my mind, no longer have to carry pepper spray in my pocket and no longer have to keep a small armory at the ready in the shop.

May your soul finally find the peace it never could here on this planet John Forrest Washington. RIP.

Justin Soares