Friday, January 14, 2011
RIP John Dye
This post is going to make me sound profoundly square but I don't care. Yes, I watched Touched By An Angel... not religiously (puns!) but I did watch it sometimes. I had just lost my mom and both my grandmas (one who lived with us and one who lived next door) over the span of several years and as cheesy as this show was, it really was nice to watch a program that let me cry and spoke to my feeling of loss and made me feel like maybe someday the pain would go away. The cast included John Dye who played Andrew, the angel of death. I can't say he was one of my favorite characters on the show. In fact, I enjoyed the show more for the stories and the guest actors than the regular cast. But the man was part of a time in my life that was hard and sad and part of something that helped me. And to see that he has died at such a young age (47) is tragic. I just wanted to acknowledge his passing.
