Re: [VFB] Murf Memorial UPDATE - Please Read !

[Tom Davenport]

Hi, Jimmy, I will send a fly.   I sent a tribute post to the list about Murf when I first heard the news, but it bounced.   I had a chance to have a nice visit with him, he was one of several people I especially wanted to meet at the Sowbug this year, and I found him to be a kind and gentle soul. It is a very sad thing to have him pass away just at the age where one begins to figure out what really matters in life, and appreciates living more than ever.  I've always told my kids I wanted to go before my brain, but 50 is far to young.  My father and my Grandmother both outlived their brains by about four years, and if there is any blessing in an early departure it is that children don't have to spend years trying to reconstruct what their father or mother were REALLY like.   But it is hard to see someone go when there are so many things beginning to happen which they have been looking forward to for a lifetime: retirement, grandchildren, the mellowing wisdom of experience.  I personally know four people  who have had near death experiences, and only one of these actually wanted to go back into their bodies.  That one only came back because he wanted to share the wonderful feeling he had on the other side with his wife.  (He died four years later, but his wife wasn't as enthusiastic  and waited another twenty years to join him). Anyway, I take a great deal of consolation in knowing that he really is in a better place.  Tom Davenport On Apr 20, 2006, at 9:26 AM, Jimmy D. Moore wrote: As of this writing, I have 45 VFB'ers signed up to tie a fly for the David Murphy Memorial Fly Collection.  It has been 5 days since I announced that I'd meister it, and in order to give ample time for your fly to get to me,  VIA the USPS, I'm cutting the "sign up" off at 9:00 p.m. CDT, this Saturday, April 22nd.  That gives you two more days to see my post and make up your mine. IF YOU WANT TO SIGN UP, PLEASE CONTACT ME OFF LIST. I would like to have at least 50 flies to place in the shadow box.  That will look great.  However, if I get more than that it will be fine. If you want to tie a fly for Murf and haven't signed up, don't dilly dally around.  We're talking about ONE FLY to tie, and then dropping in into the mail. My mailing address is:   JIMMY  D. MOORE 9409 Mesa Verde Circle. -- ******************************************************************* Jimmy D. Moore - Scout Exec. BSA (Ret.), TOWA, TF&G Contributor, GRTU Past VP. Past Pres. McGregor Rotary. Freelance Outdoor writer, humorist, half-assed Texan and collector of classic bamboo fly rods and classic golf clubs Author - "MOON HOLLER MISFITS Fishing & Hunting Club", © JIMMY D's Fly Fishing Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~rayado/rayadoflyfishingflypatternstips/index.html ******************************************************************** "Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the ability to read a defense is to an NFL Quarterback." Jimmy D. Moore - © [2004] *******************************************************************