10.28.05
Posted in Memories at 10:57 am by Lauren Belcher
I have so many great memories of Lucas that will forever be ingrained in my heart and mind. Lucas was 2 years ahead of me in school and when he graduated from STJ we never lived in the same city, but still kept in touch all throughout the years. Every time we saw each other or spoke on the phone we just picked up right were we left off. He would remember every detail of what was happening in my life the last time we had spoken. He always asked about each person in my family individually. He’d want to know how my nephew was doing in school and he would even ask about my brother-in-law. Lucas was just that type of caring person.
So, I wanted to share a couple vivid memories of Lucas. The funniest thing that I have ever seen in my life was watching Lucas in tumbling class at the Armory. Mr. Harris signed him up to take tumbling because it is supposed to help football players with their coordination – or something like that. I can still perfectly picture Lucas trying to do all these gymnastics moves with his arms and legs sprawled out all over the place! Of course, he was laughing the entire time, as was I. It was too funny! Needless to say, those classes didn’t last too long.
Then there’s the Spring Break in Destin when Lucas decided to swim across the bay to come and see me at my condo. Our condos were across the bay from each other and he didn’t have a car so Lucas just swam across it! It’s a far swim – probably a couple football fields. What can I say – I can’t imagine anyone else swimming across a body of water to come and visit me except for Lucas.
Last summer when I moved to Birmingham after college, Lucas came to hang out with me. We had the best time – there wasn’t even so much as a pause in our conversations. We laughed about old times and just stayed up all night long talking.
As thoughts and memories of Lucas resonate through my mind everyday, I realize that people like him are so far and few between. I’m so grateful for the good times times we shared and I thank him for being him. Lucas was truly a very special person and I will never forget him.
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10.25.05
Posted in Memories at 12:14 pm by Dayna Mullins
A few weeks ago I was out late and missed my flight to California the following morning. I felt terrible and all I could do to get through waiting 5 hours until the next flight was find the sunniest spot near a big window and sleep on the floor. As I was drifting off to sleep Lucas’ smile popped into my head. I saw his wide, full tooth grin, dimples and all. It was such an unexpected yet welcome treat, and I felt his strong presence with me for a few minutes. I would trade anything to have him back with us, and it makes me so sad and angry that he’s not here. In those moments when I feel his energy and presence, I am moved…sometimes to tears and sometimes to laugh or smile. In life Lucas always made me laugh, thank you all for sharing these memories…you’ve helped me laugh a ton in the face of our terrible loss.
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10.15.05
Posted in Memories at 4:12 pm by Rob Rosenfeld
During the year Lucas attended Lawrenceville, I got to see him a lot in New York City. He would come into the city on weekends and would stop by our apartment. One visit I had just finished reading one of my favorite books, Shogun, and was raving about it. He asked me a bit about it, enough to hear it was about Japan at least, and headed into my bedroom to browse my bookshelf. He came back out with Rising Sun explaining it was on my bookshelf, still about Japan, but much thinner. A couple visits later, he brought it back telling me that was the first book he’d read for fun in a long time. Years later during his last visit to New York, he told me he had read and enjoyed a book by Shogun’s author and happily took another from me. Those were probably my better influences on Lucas and I always felt good about it. Just another of the many ways Lucas could make you feel good.
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10.02.05
Posted in Memories at 8:41 am by Tarlie Harris
Yes, that is a stupid picture of me. I post it only because it was one of Lucas’ most prized possessions when I was in high school. He had a few copies of slightly different versions of it and would hide it strategically around the house so that when I brought friends, or more importantly boys, over he could grab it real quick and show them before I knew what he was doing. I am not exaggerating! We used to have knock-down drag-out fights over this picture. He truly cherished it as only a little brother could. I will always miss that.
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Posted in Memories at 7:29 am by Tarlie Harris
Lucas’ modeling experiment has been mentioned a few times. I feel like I have to at least stick up for Lucas and admit that the whole modeling thing was my idea, well, and Morgan’s too. We were in Birmingham in June of 2001, Morgan and I were up in my room, I think we were getting ready for a party my parents were having…anyways, Lucas walked in my room and scared the shit out of Morgan because she didn’t recognize him! He had that thin outline of a beard thing going and was super tan….anyways, she just thought he had really blossomed and was convinced he should be a model. So a few weeks later, I went to Atlanta to Morgan’s house and we had Lucas come and meet us from Auburn, and we took him to the agency and I paid for the pictures and told him to follow up. He pretty much did the entire thing just to get us to stop talking about it. We had fun going out that night too, there was lots of singing involved, as usual. I had forgotton about the wrinkled clothes part, or I probably didn’t even notice, and I was at the agency with him!
This is a picture from that summer.
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