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Welcome to Richard F. Ganci's page where his many friends and seminary classmates celebrate the life and works of the amazing Richard F. Ganci [1945-2008] Obit published in the Telluride Watch March 4, 2008 [Moderator Note: Excerpted from Art Goodtimes' column, Up Bear Creek ] SAN FRANCISCO … Richard was one of a kind. He marched to his own drummer. He had a quick mind and a playful spirit. Inventive. Master of correspondence. Wildly funny. Though he could be witty and even chatty in person, he was by preference a hermit. He described himself as “a monk in the world.” Worked at simple jobs -- gas station attendant, counselor for disturbed kids, the longest as clerk in several bookstores. Rented small flats, sometimes in the basement of someone else’s home. Valued his privacy more and more the older he got … He wrote brilliant little epigrammatic poems that reminded me of the ancient Greek lyric masters – Callimachus, Archilochus, Meleager of Gadara. At on...