The news of the death of Minneota's own Bill Holm hit me hard. In 1991 my company published an excerpt from his brilliant "Coming Home Crazy" as a holiday gift for our clients and friends -- and a passage from that book is one I still return to many times each year: "Gifts are your teachers, not your obligation or the fulfillment of a bargain. They are supposed to disconnect you from your own life for a few minutes, so you can see it more clearly. A good gift delivers a brisk shock. A good gift cannot be reciprocated without damage to the soul. You must take it and live." What a gift was Bill Holm. RIP. KATHY TUNHEIM, BLOOMINGTON
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