The last thing Paul Squires wrote at my blog post Swimming in the adjoining ponds of imagination (written on July 15, 2010) was this:
More koi Jazz! A long and gorgeous trilling right hand cascade down the keyboard, Oscar Peterson style, all done in colour and movement! Life is a koi pond indeed!
The first thing he ever wrote at a post called Paint for Painting’s Sake (June 16, 2008) was this:
I don’t know nearly enough about the practice of painting, nothing actually, being a writer, but reading your posts back this far and looking at your work had really helped me understand what’s going in a painter’s mind. I don’t think it’s pretentious at all, revealing and fascinating in fact, especially the one about the abstract which really made it clearer in my mind what that was all about and related in a way to my writing. So thanks.
He wrote stuff like this — all over the internet — encouraging others to excel at art (in the broadest sense of the word). His role as lifter of spirits is one that all those of us who knew him should remember always — and practice in his absence, this lovely humane kindness.
Aletha Kuschan's Weblog 
That photo – someone once said the cigarette dangling out of his mouth was like one of his commas that he dangled at the end of his poems – meaning this poem continues on,
gorgeous post, aletha … so many fantabulous echoes and memories of Paul … everywhere
Thank you so much, Shell. Paul was a great man. I miss him. We all miss him.
“Life is an amazing adventure, an improvised work of art and what’s more, the only thing you have, everything else depends on it, rejoice!”–Paul Squires
I miss him terribly.