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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: GUEST,karen k Date: 20 Feb 02 - 05:11 AM Mick My thoughts are with you and Jim and Darla's family. I know how much you've helped me across the miles that separate us and it means the world to me. I can just imagine how you've been there for this whole family. How fortunate they are to have you close by. My love and hugs to you. You are quite a friend to all you meet. May Jim and Darla continue to make music in their new home. |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Fortunato Date: 19 Feb 02 - 01:31 PM You were right there, man, right to the finish, and if there's a good way to go, it's with a good friend singing you away. Your privlege to sing, his joy to listen. Congratulations, well done. Chance |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Lonesome EJ Date: 19 Feb 02 - 01:13 PM Sorry to hear it, Mick. And McGrath, beautifully put. |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: KathWestra Date: 19 Feb 02 - 12:02 PM Love to you, Mick. You were a good friend to Darla & Jim, as they were to you. Sharing your sadness. Big hug, Kath |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: alison Date: 18 Feb 02 - 09:37 PM all my love Mick, to you and to their family.... you can be sure Darla & Jim are happily together again love alison |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: GUEST,Den Date: 18 Feb 02 - 08:31 PM Mick, I'm sorry for your trouble. Den |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 18 Feb 02 - 06:04 PM Thank you for sharing that with us, Mick, and for looking to us as people who want to be with you in your trouble even at a distance, while you are with Jim and Darla's family in this time.
Here's a song I wrote which came to mind as I read the thread.
Stand up at last, there's nothing that can hold you.
There are hard days and good days.
Times passing fast. It's time that we were doing (Here's a link to the words with a streaming sound file for the tune.) |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Kim C Date: 18 Feb 02 - 06:00 PM (hug) |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: SharonA Date: 18 Feb 02 - 03:03 PM Mick: I wasn't here at Mudcat when the first chapters of this story were written, but it sounds like your Jim and Darla are the sort of people who are gone too soon no matter when their time comes. My condolences to you and your band, to Jim and Darla's family, to all who knew these two fine folks. Sharon |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: PeteBoom Date: 18 Feb 02 - 01:46 PM Much sympathy Mick - Hang in there - gimme a shout, eh? Pete |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: catspaw49 Date: 17 Feb 02 - 11:35 PM Blessings do abound in all of this.........Darla and Jim together had a wonderful life, their children are blessed as well as their friends for knowing them. And we here have been blessed to know their story through our mutual friend Mick. Yeah....it's a sad time, but it was a pair of fine lives shared by many and the world is better for their living in it. Many blessings........... Oft I sing for my friends, When this cold form I see When I reach my journey's end Tell me who will sing for me Chorus: I wonder who (I wonder who) Will sing for me (will sing for me) When I come to the cross by the silent sea, Tell me who will sing for me When friends have gathered 'round And look down on me Will they turn and walk away Or will they sing one song for me So I'll sing until the end And helpful try to be Ever knowing there'll be some Who will sing one song for me So tonight we sing for Darla and Jim and for their big friend who will always have a song for others as we do for him........Hang in there Bro.......I love you. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: katlaughing Date: 17 Feb 02 - 11:21 PM Peace in your heart, dearie mon, and joy at their reunion. All my love and condolences to you and their family. We are better for your sharing. luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Bo Vandenberg Date: 17 Feb 02 - 10:51 PM Prayers and Blessings. Carry their joy onward to share. Bo
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Bobert Date: 17 Feb 02 - 10:04 PM Jim and Darla are dancing with the angels tonight. Nuthin' wrong with that... Bless them... |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Janie Date: 17 Feb 02 - 09:49 PM Mick, Prayers and blessings on all of you who loved them both. Janie |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: kendall Date: 17 Feb 02 - 09:22 PM Thanks for sharing this Mick, it was real nice of you Mate. |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Kernow John Date: 17 Feb 02 - 06:56 PM Mick It's all been said much better than I can. Take care my friend. KJ |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: DougR Date: 17 Feb 02 - 05:08 PM As Rich says, all has been said. My sympathies, Mick. DougR |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: RichM Date: 17 Feb 02 - 04:33 PM All the right words have already been said here , beautifully, ....add my condolences to you and to Darla and Jim's family. Rich McCarthy |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: GUEST Date: 17 Feb 02 - 03:32 PM Yours, Aye. (you know who) |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Amergin Date: 17 Feb 02 - 03:06 PM Quote from Mick....Always have a smile when you need one. If another is in need of cooking, cleaning, painting, or just a shoulder to cry on, they are there. You can usually tell them by the children they raise. Mick, those words describe to a T my own gramma....you are right...we are very fortunate to have people like them gracing our lives.... Like Jeri, I feel that Jim and Darla are members of this community....because you have told us so much about them....While I am sad for those she had left behind....I am happy for her....She is now with the love of her life....the love of her spirit. Take care, nathan |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Jeri Date: 17 Feb 02 - 02:46 PM Mick, because you told us about Darla and Jim, I feel like they were part of our community here. I've heard people say that to some extent, people pick their times to go. Ciara may have got it right. My condolences to you and Darla's family.
Love, |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Bill D Date: 17 Feb 02 - 02:42 PM I was a long struggle, but you...and she..faced it with strength & dignity....sounds like the kind of goodbye she would have liked.. take care |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: IvanB Date: 17 Feb 02 - 02:12 PM Mick, my eyes welled up with tears as I read this last bit of news. Although there must be rejoicing in heaven that Darla and Jim have been reunited, it's certainly a sad time for those left behind to cope. I'm sending warm hugs and love your way. Please pass on our love and concern to Darla's and Jim's children. |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Tinker Date: 17 Feb 02 - 02:02 PM A heartflet prayer and a huge hug Tinker |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Steve Latimer Date: 17 Feb 02 - 01:57 PM My condolences Mick. |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Dave Swan Date: 17 Feb 02 - 01:49 PM Brother Fielding is right, we are blessed to have folks like that in our lives. Darla and Jim are blessed to have the Big Mick tell their story. Our warmest, Dave & Pam |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: SINSULL Date: 17 Feb 02 - 01:43 PM No words come. Bless you, Mick. |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Rick Fielding Date: 17 Feb 02 - 01:38 PM Yup, ain't it the truth Mick. We are blessed to have folks like that in our lives. Our condolences. Rick and heather |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: CapriUni Date: 17 Feb 02 - 12:46 PM {{{{{{{{Big Mick}}}}}}}} Boy, oh, boy! What a chapter -- what an incredible pair of lives -- what a love! What can I say except: Individual lives may be fleeting as a cloud in the summer sky. But the love is eternal. :::Singing "May the Circle be Unbroken" in my head as I type this::: |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Big Mick Date: 17 Feb 02 - 12:26 PM And so this chapter ends. We buried Darla yesterday. Her long, hard journey is at an end. Jed and I returned from our ramble to Toronto. Mary Lou let us share and babble over the wonderful time we had before she shared the news that Darla had passed away just before we got home. My 10 year old daughter, Ciara, said that Darla just got lonesome for Jim and wanted to be with him on Valentines Day. That is plenty good enough for me. Let me try to describe this woman to you. We all have friends we make along the way. Despite efforts to say otherwise by some, most of the folks I run into along the path are great folks and it makes me happy to have met them. But their is that small group one meets in his/her life. You know the ones, they are without guile. Wouldn't dream of sniping at someone. Always have a smile when you need one. If another is in need of cooking, cleaning, painting, or just a shoulder to cry on, they are there. You can usually tell them by the children they raise. This is Darla. If one is fortunate enough to know 5 others like her in their life, then they are truly blessed. And her children................God, please continue to bless these children. How often do we see folks that forget the sacrifices that their parents made for them, when the parents are ill. Not these kids. They were there for their Mother in her passing, just as she was in their coming. We gathered round the gravesite in the wind and blowing snow yesterday to lay her down beside Jim. There were autoharps, guitars, and mandolins. And not a dry eye anywhere. She left us after only 57 years, but we are blessed for her being here. Mick |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: catspaw49 Date: 14 Apr 01 - 05:17 PM I dunno Seamus.....sounds kind of regal.....SEDAMUS .....or at least biblical or something.
"Let me introduce you to Sedamus." Spaw |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 14 Apr 01 - 04:04 PM Sedamus? That's the last time I try typing without looking at the keyboard. Seamus |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 14 Apr 01 - 04:02 PM Great, Mick! That's as it should be. Put me down for a CD when it come out. Sedamus |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Big Mick Date: 14 Apr 01 - 12:47 PM AAAHHHH Peg, I am so sorry. I know how rough this is. All I can tell you by way of my own experiences over the years is to grieve hard, get it over with, and start looking for that persons voice in others. Pass it on, and they live. Withdraw into a shell, you die and they die. Comes down to that for me. Thanks for your very kind words. I love you too, Karen K, but you knew that already. I will print the picture in color and send it to you. Dani, the fact that you haven't received it already is only a mistake. I thought I had emailed it to you, my friend. It is on the way. Joy, I sure hope we see you at FSGW this year!! Mick |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Peg Date: 14 Apr 01 - 12:35 PM Mick. I don't know you and haven't really exchanged a lot of words with you but since all these fine folk think so highly of you, you must be worth the trouble! ;0 I lost a dear friend myself recently (28 years old, horrible car accident) and it is a shocking and sad event that changes everything... Here's hoping you will come through it, the sadness and shock, happy and healthy and ready for what comes next... Peg |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Dani Date: 14 Apr 01 - 12:14 PM OK, come clean, Mick. Can we see the picture? PLEASE... Dani |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: karen k Date: 14 Apr 01 - 09:14 AM Mick, my dear friend, what wonderful news. I for one can't wait for the cd to come out. The Getaway would be a great place for a debut. Any chance?
Having just lost a good friend of more than 25 years (Bill Domler)a couple of weeks ago, I understand a little better what the loss of Jim has meant to you. How wonderful that his daughter can step in where he left off. The wheel truely is an amazing thing.
And speaking of the new, that new little grandson of yours, Conner, is absolutely precious. What a lucky little guy to start out life in the arms of such a loving grandfather. Thanks for including me among those gifted with the photo of Conner and his proud grandpa. Of course I printed the picture and it is now hanging right near my computer where I can see it often. Wish I had a color printer though. May Conner have a long, healthy, musical life. Boy, there's that wheel again! It just never stops, does it!
Much love, |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Joy Bennett Date: 14 Apr 01 - 09:04 AM great news -- the wheel turns once again--
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Big Mick Date: 14 Apr 01 - 08:15 AM Art, that is not a surprise to me. And I am tickled that he used it and made it part of the archive of labor/music history. I am amazed at it every time I listen to it and read your notes. I am trying to write a song about the whole thing with you in a narrator's role. The whole story, right down to the ending is just too good not to use. Paul was an extraordinary character and I feel like his story must be told. But then again, so are you. And so it goes. All the best, Mick |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Amergin Date: 14 Apr 01 - 05:29 AM Hey, katdarling, I love those books! Mick, my friend, that sounds wonderful! Just let us all know when the cd becomes available!
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Gervase Date: 14 Apr 01 - 05:13 AM Grand news, Mick. I love the wheel concept of life - as in Dave Webber's lovely parting song, written on the death of a close friend, which seems very apt in this thread: ALONG THE ROAD OF TIME Soon the morning sun will rise And dawn will bathe the sky. There's time for just this parting song Before we say goodbye. So sing together one and all And raise a glass of wine. Here's hoping we shall meet again Along the road of time. We've shared our stories, yours and mine, We've shared our hopes and fears. In memories of distant youth We've both rolled back the years. The ever-turning fateful wheel Must cause our ways to part, And bringing untold mysteries, Another day will start. From endings come beginnings, From the old shall come the new. We've hopes for tomorrow; We'll see our parting through. ( Copyright Dave Webber) |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: katlaughing Date: 14 Apr 01 - 03:27 AM That is just wonderful, Mick, really happy to hear that. You will let us know when the CD is ready, won't you? Sorcha, have you been reading Jordan's Wheel of Time books? |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: wysiwyg Date: 14 Apr 01 - 01:25 AM And I was just wondering how Darla was. Mick, blessings flow through and from all that surrounds you. Amos, I know how to do that. Read your e-mail for a clue about that, in fact. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Amos Date: 14 Apr 01 - 01:06 AM Now, if we could only get OFF the damn thing once in a while, just to refresh ourselves, like... A |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Liam's Brother Date: 13 Apr 01 - 11:42 PM Excellent! |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Sorcha Date: 13 Apr 01 - 11:24 PM Waxing philosophical here, but what gets to me is that the older we get, the more we realize/accept The Wheel...sadness, maybe, but less fear and more acceptance. The Wheel IS, the Wheel will be, no matter our professed "faith" or religion......there is always the Wheel........ (whoops, I better get back to ducks, huh?) |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: bbc Date: 13 Apr 01 - 11:11 PM Love you, dear. Good news, indeed! bbc |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 13 Apr 01 - 10:52 PM Great, Mick , the music plays on. Aye! Dave |
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Subject: RE: NonMusic, NonBS:Big Mick Needs Hugs From: catspaw49 Date: 13 Apr 01 - 10:44 PM This damn place.................I'd try to tell you how special this is but I can't type well with all this sniffling I'm doing...................just grand Mick. Spaw |