For a Friend

I have worked hard to keep this blog about Ellis and Ellis alone, filtering out all the other things going on around us all the time. But I know y'all are a praying crowd, so please indulge me for a moment as I stray from the program.
This past weekend we unexpectedly lost a friend and a mentor, Ken Greene, who was a partner at our architecture firm, GBBN, and worked closely with both Greg and me. For years he taught us, day by day, how to be better architects. Ken and the other partners at GBBN have always been supportive of our family and went out of their way to make sure Greg could keep working during our three months in Cincinnati in addition to a thousand other things that made our stay more comfortable. When I told our Lexington colleagues about the complications that were occuring in my pregnancy and the things we were going to be facing after Ellis was born, Ken put his arm around me and assured me that he would pray for us and that he would do whatever he could to help us. He and his wife Alice have been a great encouragement to us through this journey, as their son also spent some time in the NICU after he was born. Ken and Alice, along with many others from GBBN, visited us in the hospital and continued to check on Ellis, and even bring her gifts, after we brought her home. There is no way in these few words to express what he meant to us and to all those he knew for so many years. Please pray for his family and close friends now as they deal with this great loss.
GBBN is keeping this page for memories and tributes, professional and personal.