Celebration of Candle's Life and Light🕯️ 2/2/41 - 7/22/24

My dear friend Candle transitioned today July 22, 2024.
He passed naturally over the rainbow 🌈 bridge and into the light 🕯️
"It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness"
Russell Fricano (Candle)
Candle was a dear friend and a role model for what I wanted to be like when I grow up. My journey with Candle started in Kauai where we bonded over kittens, espresso and spiritual wisdom. I felt a deep love for Candle and Cheeah and figuratively "adopted" them as my adopted parents. I even got them a place to live next door to me for years on Kauai so we could have philosophical talks over espresso and dancing. We shared many deeply spiritual and expanding experiences in love and life. Candle really was an amazing soul, extremely independent and capable of "true unconditional love". He was not into sapping conditional love at all. He wanted to inspire you and everyone to aspire to your greatness. He was a creative genius. He was a lover of Finnigans Wake, a book written by the famous author James Joyce, born on the same day as Candle. There are PHD studies on the work of James Joyce, who makes up words in poetry in his novels. Extremely difficult to read silently, nearly impossible aloud. Candle not only did this, but he spent 2+ years recording himself reading Finnigans Wake from start to finish. A river runs through it...
His love story with Cheeah is legendary and pure magic. What an amazing couple. They even spent 6 weeks with me in Switzerland, where Candle was able to visit and read aloud Finnigans Wake at the James Joyce society in Zurich and visit his gravesite. So grateful to share life with the amazingly brilliant Russell Fricano, known as Candle.
Candle and Cheeah were part of the founding of Token of Me 6 years ago and were an integral part of the original creation. I know Candle is now making movies in the over world. He was a film script writer in Hollywood before retiring on Kauai with Cheeah. Incredibly creative and brilliant and super funny. Love you eternally Candle 🕯️
Music in this video created by Elijah Ray and the Band of Light singing "Last Goodbyes"
We have started a GoFundMe to raise funds to help Cheeah with the cremation costs and some medical bills for Candle over the last few months. Friends will be covering the costs to host a celebration of life for Candle. gofund.me/11f3...
We are creating a photo collage for Candle's celebration on Kauai (date still to be determined). If you have a sweet photo of Candle, please upload a high resolution original version to my google drive here: drive.google.c...