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Miklos A. Bosarge, 59, passed away on April 20, 2021 at Good Samaritan Hospital after a valiant battle with COVID. Mick was born June 23, 1961 in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from Colerain High School and earned Associate degrees in Civil Engineering and Laboratory Technology from Cincinnati State Technical College. Mick began his career as a Laboratory Technician at P&G. An executive at P&G gave a speech about traits of people that succeed in business and life - having a cool head, working hands and a warm heart. Mick reversed that order and lived life with a warm heart, working hands and a cool head (well as cool a head as is possible for the son of a Hungarian mother). The thing people noticed about Mick upon meeting him for the first time was his warm heart. He deferred to his heart in decisions that might seem incorrect or irrational to the "cool head" but what fit his warm heart to a "t". Perfectly rational! Mick devoted his warm heart for his family, friends and his beloved dogs. His heart would literally break when he heard about or saw any cruelty or mistreatment of any animal. Mick recently rescued a dog that had been hit by a car. It was not being cared for by her owner so Mick went to the house and took the dog. Although he was short on money, he found the funds to get the hip surgery the dog required and nursed her back to health. He combines his warm heart with working hands to his yard, garden and plants. Communing with Nature. Many plants he started from seeds and nurtured to full growth. It started with a leftover grapefruit seed he planted that grew so large it no longer fit in the house. He donated it to Krohn Conservatory where it happily resides today. Mick could always be seen working in his beloved yard. Some saw it as a jungle because, honestly Mick never met a plant he didn't like and he found a home for all of them. And if you were a weed in Mick's yard you had a fighting chance because he never used any chemicals in his yard: completely organic. Mick was more than someone that admired or respected Nature. He was Nature's advocate and defender. He loved all things natural, organic in this world. Mick was an admirer and devotee of Wendell Berry, reading and following his environmental preservation principles. He never missed an opportunity to share a quote from Berry, like "Eating is an agricultural act", or "The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster it, is our only hope" and "There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, with one another and with the place and all the living things." COVID is a terrible disease. As much as we grieve we are comforted knowing Mick is no longer suffering. Because of COVID we could not hug him, hold him. But he was not alone. We could see he was surrounded by health care workers with warm hearts that were so giving of themselves, to rest their working hands and hold his hands, employing their cool heads to fight for Mick for 10 days with little rest. He was in a community of warm caring hearts. And asdifficult as it was to receive the twice daily updates we know it was just as difficult for them to make those calls. Yet they did, and the staff at Good Samaritan Hospital has this family's enduring gratitude. This ancient Australian Aboriginal quote feels like Mick: "We are all visitors to this time and place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love..and then we return home." To paraphrase Wendell: You have now come into the peace of wild things. For all time you will rest in the grace of the world, and are free." Rest in community with Nature and the world Miklos...you are home. In lieu of flowers the family asks that you send donations to Heritage Acres Memorial Sanctuary (Mick's resting place) at Heritageacresmemorial.org. Or you can plant a tree. Knowing Mick he would say plant 5 trees Zoom Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/9RjdV0euK9arjaeQhmQ43jZRdtrT4eFAouAdSdZrCq25pPLQVrw6B8myl7JywYE.xXx0Pxrs9DlQ6c-E

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Miklos Attila Bosarge

June 23, 1961 - April 20, 2021