Instead of an elegy for my dying brother

Instead of an elegy for my dying brother 
Santa Cruz Sentinel, by Stephen Kessler; 3/31/24
Week before last I wrote about my elder brother Bruce, the racing driver, film director, deep-sea fisher, boat designer and global circumnavigator, who was on the last laps of his extraordinary life. ... I found him at home in hospice care, in a hospital bed by the big slider off the balcony in his seventh-floor apartment in Marina Del Rey with a lovely view of the marina and all its pretty white boats with their slender masts afloat on the dark-blue water. ...