The Music Man
Ron loved music. He loved all kinds of music. His taste knew no limits for music was such a creative essence and it just filled him up.
He especially loved to play music, as a young man on drums in a band, and in recent years he rediscovered his drumming through the bongo drums playing with various bands at a local coffee shop in the Duncan area. When he talked music with his fellow musicians, he just lit right up! He also told me many times playing with Todd and others when he visited Victoria.
One day about 10 years ago, I found out about a world drumming show in Vancouver. I got him a ticket to it. At first he refused to go but I insisted. Afterwards, he raved about how incredible it was and that it was truly one of the highlights of his life for he saw masters playing the instruments that were his calling.
We had incredible fun when he was here on Cortes....he would bring his bongos and we would put on music and we played to it.....he would get "in the pocket" and just go for it full on without a care in the world playing his heart out and I would join him playing the spoons! The moment he would arrive, I would crank the stereo full on and he would start playing and could then unwind. It was some of our most fun times!
His favourite song was Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers and his favourite band was the BeeGees.
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A Whale Of a Tale
When Ron first came up to visit me on Cortes Island, we had perfect weather. He seemed always to be able to bring that with him when he visited!
We went out in my double open kayak fishing on one of those days where the sky was so blue and the sun glistened on the water, sparkling in tiny beams of light. Not a breeze to stir the calmness of the surface. We went out to my favorite salmon fishing spot, a reef that dropped deeply off of a small island just a little ways from our bay. We fished and fished but had no luck but we didn't care! We were out in the glorious sunshine surrounded the the splendour of nature that Ron just so much loved.
Suddenly behind us we hear a "whoosh" sound and turn to see a whole pod of whales going by maybe 100 feet away! All sizes coming in and out of the water swimming together and blowing air out of their blow holes. It was so incredible. Ron was so excited! He couldn't believe he had witnessed that. 10 minutes later another pod came by and 20 minutes after that a third pod! It must have been almost all the northern Vancouver Island pods going south.
But that was not all we saw on that momentous day that lived always in the memory of Ron that he loved to tell others about.....
Watching us and the whales all this time was a large eagle sitting on top of a tree over the ocean just beside us. Suddenly she took off at full flight over us flying all the way across the open water, about a mile, in no time flat. "What was she up to?" we said to each other. She swooped down and dove onto the water and grabbed something and flew back to the tree in a flash with a fish in his mouth. We were just so amazed at the incredible eyesight of that eagle who could see from so far away her dinner, fly there, catch it and be back all within maybe a minute!
The eagle eye...nothing like it on the planet!
To top off the day, we did catch fish, using an uneaten minnow in the first fish caught to catch the second cod! We paddled home, and cooked those fish up right away. Did we enjoy that!
....that was our fishing story that we told over and over relishing and glorying in a most perfect day!
When Ron first came up to visit me on Cortes Island, we had perfect weather. He seemed always to be able to bring that with him when he visited!
We went out in my double open kayak fishing on one of those days where the sky was so blue and the sun glistened on the water, sparkling in tiny beams of light. Not a breeze to stir the calmness of the surface. We went out to my favorite salmon fishing spot, a reef that dropped deeply off of a small island just a little ways from our bay. We fished and fished but had no luck but we didn't care! We were out in the glorious sunshine surrounded the the splendour of nature that Ron just so much loved.
Suddenly behind us we hear a "whoosh" sound and turn to see a whole pod of whales going by maybe 100 feet away! All sizes coming in and out of the water swimming together and blowing air out of their blow holes. It was so incredible. Ron was so excited! He couldn't believe he had witnessed that. 10 minutes later another pod came by and 20 minutes after that a third pod! It must have been almost all the northern Vancouver Island pods going south.
But that was not all we saw on that momentous day that lived always in the memory of Ron that he loved to tell others about.....
Watching us and the whales all this time was a large eagle sitting on top of a tree over the ocean just beside us. Suddenly she took off at full flight over us flying all the way across the open water, about a mile, in no time flat. "What was she up to?" we said to each other. She swooped down and dove onto the water and grabbed something and flew back to the tree in a flash with a fish in his mouth. We were just so amazed at the incredible eyesight of that eagle who could see from so far away her dinner, fly there, catch it and be back all within maybe a minute!
The eagle eye...nothing like it on the planet!
To top off the day, we did catch fish, using an uneaten minnow in the first fish caught to catch the second cod! We paddled home, and cooked those fish up right away. Did we enjoy that!
....that was our fishing story that we told over and over relishing and glorying in a most perfect day!
| Ron Bazar |
How in the World could this have happened?
My name is Ron Bazar. I have been blessed to have known Ron for almost 25 years. We were the best of friends, close buddies and business partners. We have been through so many business battles together. We were true entrepreneurs and visionaries.
For the past 9 years, Ron and I have been working to create WorldBuyDirect.com. For reasons unknown, it has been the hardest business to make successful. Both Ron and I so believed in it that we sacrificed so much never knowing that it would drag on and on.
He would not listen to anyone close who wanted him to see a doctor and go to the hospital. He absolutely refused because he knew that to do so would mean the business would suffer and he could not do that for his loyalty to me, the business licensees and close loved ones. He would have none of it, always believing that something good was around the corner and then he could deal with his own problems.
He never wanted to be a burden on anyone.
On August 20 I sent Ron an email saying that we just had to make something change in the next 2 weeks as both of us could no longer go on as we were and we had to find a way to end it. He agreed. But within a few days, his health deteriorated so fast that he ended up in the last place he ever wanted.... a hospital. And things went from bad to worse. It was such a tragedy to see him go like that and to be called away so young with so many unfilled hopes and dreams.
Ron was a modern day warrior, as business is today's battleground. We always said we battled back to back to protect each other. And fight we did. Ron never gave up. He never could. He had an incredible spirit and died to save me from going down. He felt equally responsible for the massive debts I was incurring and felt them as his own.
The battle is not over yet for the business as a new energy is starting to come into it. My hope is that it can become all we saw it to be. That would make him beam from ear to ear with that smile that graced us all!
Ron, Buddy Boy!, my heart goes out to you for the terrible price you had to pay. I know that we do not know why but I trust that you left us in good hands and you will be our constant inspiration.
Your best Buddy,
Ron
My name is Ron Bazar. I have been blessed to have known Ron for almost 25 years. We were the best of friends, close buddies and business partners. We have been through so many business battles together. We were true entrepreneurs and visionaries.
For the past 9 years, Ron and I have been working to create WorldBuyDirect.com. For reasons unknown, it has been the hardest business to make successful. Both Ron and I so believed in it that we sacrificed so much never knowing that it would drag on and on.
He would not listen to anyone close who wanted him to see a doctor and go to the hospital. He absolutely refused because he knew that to do so would mean the business would suffer and he could not do that for his loyalty to me, the business licensees and close loved ones. He would have none of it, always believing that something good was around the corner and then he could deal with his own problems.
He never wanted to be a burden on anyone.
On August 20 I sent Ron an email saying that we just had to make something change in the next 2 weeks as both of us could no longer go on as we were and we had to find a way to end it. He agreed. But within a few days, his health deteriorated so fast that he ended up in the last place he ever wanted.... a hospital. And things went from bad to worse. It was such a tragedy to see him go like that and to be called away so young with so many unfilled hopes and dreams.
Ron was a modern day warrior, as business is today's battleground. We always said we battled back to back to protect each other. And fight we did. Ron never gave up. He never could. He had an incredible spirit and died to save me from going down. He felt equally responsible for the massive debts I was incurring and felt them as his own.
The battle is not over yet for the business as a new energy is starting to come into it. My hope is that it can become all we saw it to be. That would make him beam from ear to ear with that smile that graced us all!
Ron, Buddy Boy!, my heart goes out to you for the terrible price you had to pay. I know that we do not know why but I trust that you left us in good hands and you will be our constant inspiration.
Your best Buddy,
Ron
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