always love each other, always visit family and tell them you love them, always take the moment to grab a picture of all the people you love smiling. So that when you lose a loved one sooner than any person should ever have to die, you know you must be hurting a lot less than you would be had you not taken a moment to say how awesome it is that they are in your life. Goodbye Michael, you will always be my cousin and my inspiration. Thank you for inspiring me to follow my heart when it calls me in a direction and to take an art form places it never went before. Thank you for telling me I had something really cool going for me and I am sad that you won't be here on earth to watch me reach the level of recognition you commanded in your craft. I am just so very very sad.

He was a kick ass taxidermist with so much more potential than he got to show. I wish I had pictures on hand to show, but he was amazing at what he did.