Stephen Sanner

Kitty, my brother. You are loved and missed. You were the smartest human I have and ever will meet. When we were kids you built endless creations with tiny legos. Magnificent sculptures that I dreamed of emulating. I adored you. You would draw inventions on printer paper, the kind of paper that zigzagged on forever and ever with a hole punched tab on the side that you were supposed to rip off after printing. You drew detailed underwater scenes on dad's white board at work that I would try and copy. There was this game that you were excellent at called "the way things worked" where one had to solve a problem set by creating an invention and you could always solve the problem. You would bring up topics that I didn't know anything about. Physics, astronomy, things I knew nothing about. You would lead endless adventures in the living room after our parents would go to bed. After you read "Seven Years in Tibet" we pretended to camp in the Himalayas and made slop out of blueberry muffin mix. Your creativity was boundless. Remember our adventures? How we would repeatedly ride that radio flyer wagon down that giant hill into the parking lot of the park, when we would explore construction zones for building materials to make our forts, when we added bubbles to the Redhawk waterfall and swam in it in the middle of the day as people drove by wondering who should have been watching us. Then you grew up. You were so welcoming and took care of me and included me in your life. You always tried to share whatever good things you could with me. You took care of me. You built multiple businesses from the ground up. You were an innovator. When I had my oldest kid you would visit us and hug her and play music for her and make her dance. Remember when your music made her lose her mind and dance like crazy when she was two? One of my favorite memories. Then when you got a chance to go to college you were triple majoring. Of course, because there was just too much cool stuff out there, how would one pick just one major. I never imagined life would go on without you. You are my big brother and you should be here with me in life. You are so beautiful and I don't know that you knew that. You brightened my life. I miss you. I love you. I hope that you are at peace. I hope that you are surrounded by kitties.