Kathleen Alcala: Gary was a Peace Warrior. That is the only way I can describe him, and I don’t even know what that means. He could see a better world, right here, right now. Most of us make it too complicated, give excuses for not being better people or trying to improve the world: we don’t like to be confined. We don’t like to be cold or hungry or earn less money. We like our comforts, and we convince ourselves that we will do more good by earning money and giving some of it away. Gary was direct. He wanted to be with people, perhaps because he knew, innately, that his very presence was a comfort. He embodied peace.
Gary’s work was to repair the world—Tikkun olam. And it is a better place because of him.
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