My father, Joseph M. Levine, died last year on this date. This is my obituary or appreciation of him. On the advice of a reader, I also put a photo of him on this blog for one year. I’ve taken it down, although I’m leaving a prominent link to his obituary.

I suppose that if you live for 75 years and then people miss you sincerely for the rest of their lives, you have lived well. The traditional words for this day certainly seem apt: “May there be abundant peace from heaven, and life, for us.”