My sympathies to you and your family and my deep thanks to John for teaching so much to so many of us mere mortals about how to think and write (and have a sense of humor too!).

Our condolences to you and family. Your father was my solid guide to the meaning of literature.

Sanders in Tucson

Don't worry about anything. You won't even have anything to post about. Cheers!

You are in our hearts and prayers. Godspeed.

No doubt losing such a vital person in your life has had you riding the emotional roller coaster of grief for the past few months. This memorial service will tweak that a bit. Please know that as much as we sometimes gripe and grumble at you and each other in this comment section we love you for being who you are and having the courage to wade into the waters of the economy of our nation and this world, thereby providing us with fodder for our own thinking processes. My thoughts are with you. I have every confidence your father awaits you in the next life. May you have many easier happier days yet to come in this.

Your father was a remarkable man who has left quite a legacy behind. I missed the article in November, but a quick Google turned up this article, from Salon:

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/11/07/john_leonard/

We'll keep the posts coming "on Citigroup, Obama's budget, and the economics of solar power" -- and anything else that comes up -- in your absence.

By the time you return, you'll have enough material to write columns for months to come.

Half of bankers would leave if bonuses capped

http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKTRE51Q0YY20090227

I never know what to say, but my sympathy.

Your father was an excellent literary critic and will be missed.

Even an athiest can wish godspeed to the John Leonard who was such a comforting presence in our living room on Sunday mornings, coming to us from a world that always seemed to make benign sense. He felt almost like family, and led us to make assumptions about his son.

Godspeed, all.