I was surprised by my own emotional reaction to the news of Ted Kennedy's passing.
More than anything else, I felt the magnitude of the passing of an era. He was the one who carried the torch for his fallen brothers. He was the glue that kept a legendary family unified.
Forced to exist in a world where the media wanted to define him by scandal, he refused to accept that label and forged ahead to make the world a better place with courage and relentless energy.
In a statement issued by his family they described him as "the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our eyes."
In spite of a life filled w an extraordinary amount of tragedy, Senator Edward Kennedy always believed that our best days were still ahead of us. If he was able to maintain that kind of faith in a life plagued with loss and heartache, how can we not?
