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# Abundance
- URL: https://www.vjarmy.com/abundance/
- Published: 2020-03-25T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-11T16:47:53.000Z
- Description: Floyd Cardoz has passed away from COVID-19.
- Author: Dan Dickinson
- Tags: Eulogies, Friends

I wish I could find constant motivation to write something of substance that isn’t a eulogy. Alas, today is not the day.

[Floyd Cardoz passed away Tuesday due to COVID-19](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/dining/floyd-cardoz-dead-coronavirus.html?ref=vjarmy.com).

I cannot begin to describe how bizarre it is to link to a NYT obituary for someone I know.

How strange it is to have someone you can refer to as a friend, someone you’ve shared a meal with, be taken from the world like this.

How weird it is to think about the times we’ve shared. To think back to the last time I saw Floyd – and how, even though it had been a few years at the time, he spoiled us with food and still treated us like family.

I’m excising the usual shower of anecdotes and tangents from this post. ([Dave Chang did it better than I ever could](https://twitter.com/davidchang/status/1242804861466443776?ref=vjarmy.com).) I’m just going to skip to the end and leave this post with this:

If you don’t think COVID-19 is serious – that it’s “just a flu”, that it won’t take people from your life – it’s time to wake up.