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My favorite Dan Miller memory
WSMV-TV’s Dan Miller, the second Nashville journalism icon to pass away this week, was a kind-hearted person as well as a talented news anchor. He will be sorely missed in Middle Tennessee for all he has added to our community, but my favorite Miller memory never aired on television.
Within the past year, I happened to see Dan take his 10-year-old daughter to lunch one Saturday at Sylvan Park Restaurant. They both looked to be having a ball spending time together, and they didn’t seem to have a care in the world. It seemed all too fitting to me today to see that Miller’s final blog posting was about his daughter.
The quote that appears at the top of his blog, which was added by Miller long before he passed away this morning, is particularly appropriate, too.
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come in the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
These words from Susan B. Anthony are wisdom that all of us should live by, and judging from that Saturday lunch date, Miller sure did. Goodbye, Dan. Nashville will miss you.
(Related: Miller’s Facebook page)
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