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for Robert Townley
6 Entries
David Wilcomb
October 30, 2017
We had many good and a few tough times. Played a lot of music together and had many many long talks. Slo long, old friend.
Pat Harrison
November 30, 2011
I lived with Bob in Norman for a couple of years before I moved to Boston. He'll always be in my heart.
Love,
Patty
Kenneth FH O'Harnett
November 4, 2008
De modo que seja onde você estêve. Se eu tinha sabido somente. Adeus, velho amigo.
What can one say of an old friend at his passing that isn't self-indulgent? The desire to express something transcendent pervades, so we try. Confronting the mortality of the icons of youth is perplexing. Loss highlights and reminds us of the ambiguity and brevity, and perhaps even of the futility, of our own being. Nevertheless, we write, we speak, we express ourselves in vain effort to bridge an unbridgeable void to touch our friend for a last meaningful time.
Townley: I’ve often remembered the throwing of the iron ball, driving to El Paso with Del Shannon’s "Runaway" on the radio and Miss Tequilla Mockingbird et al in Ciudad Juarez, March of 1961... and, of course, Candyman Music in Santa Fe and "one or two" other things and I know you did, too. “Those were the days,” my friend, the days you take with you now.
A poem:
We are all bowmen in this place-
The pattern of birds against the sky
Our arrows overprint and then they die
But it is also common to our race
That when the birds fall down, we weep
Reason is a thing we dimly see in sleep.
I hope you knew we missed you. Rock on, old friend.
KENO
Bill Reid
November 3, 2008
Hardly knew you as a grown-up, Bob, but I remember your music in '70s Santa Fe and the time you defended a nerd from hassles in high school. Godspeed, wherever you're headed now. Maybe you're already there.
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Elyse Deal
November 3, 2008
Time does pass too quickly. I remember summer days riding around in one car or another. In those days one could pack a car full. We had such great times. I miss you, Bob. I now know where you spent your time. Love, Elyse
Harley Brooke-Hitching
November 3, 2008
So many years yet there is the luxury of remembering Bob when we were in our teens. I thought of him often and always thought he would let me know where he was. I still miss you, Bob, you were such a good friend.
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