“You came to the world without a shirt on your back, and you’re going to depart this life the same way,” he’d tell anybody willing to listen. “If you have clothes and food, be content.”

A truly spiritual man. (He also owned a supermarket, two restaurants and a department store.)

J.S. O’Keefe is a scientist, trilingual translator and writer whose short stories and prosimetra have been published in several print and online magazines.