on 2/5/02 12:00 AM, onlyJMDL Digest at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:00:43 EST > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Wally B. > > I was just reading in my journal from 2 years ago, and saw that on Feb. 4th > Wally Breese passed away. I can't believe that 2 years have gone by so > quickly, yet I still think of Wally every time I sign on the computer. If it > wasn't for this wonderful man, there would be no JoniMitchell.com, and no > JMDL, and I wouldn't have met so many wonderful people. > > Thank you Wally. Thanks for helping me learn so much about Joni. I know > you're keeping track of us, and you know what a great job that J.J. and Les > are doing. > > Jimmy I've been very touched reading the many loving remembrances of Wally that have been posted recently. He would have turned 50 today.
The 2-years-since moment arrived unexpectedly here, although I'd been thinking about Wally on and off all day. At around 9:25 PM two years ago (the examiner didn't get here until after midnight so the official date is Feb. 4), he slipped away as I sat a few feet away, working on JoniMitchell.com at the computer. Two years later, to the minute, I was sitting at the computer doing the same thing, albeit a lonelier exercise than it used to be. Probably since I was sitting there at the computer when 9:25 rolled around, I found tracing my steps over the next few hours: "Oh, now I was calling the hospice nurse." "This is when the coroner got here." "Hmm, now we were just together on the couch having a last couple moments together before everybody started arriving." It was still happening the next morning -- he was all over the house so we listened to some Joni stuff on the stereo and I played some of the stuff he liked on the guitar. I usually talk with him more often around the Golden Gate Bridge, but it was nice of him to stop by. I miss Wally a lot. He was a sweet man and I wish more of you had been able to get to know him personally -- although I think many of his best qualities managed to pop out onscreen for all of us to enjoy. He's left a wonderful gift for us all. Thanks again for brightening my memories with your posts, everybody. jj
