Comments on: Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones

By: Evan Owen

Evan Owen — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:50:33 +0000

It takes your breath away to think of the tangible matter that is love and friendship — to say nothing of the stuff of soul — that fleed without footsteps and fingerprints like this from a self-obsessed id in full freefall. Bruce had his own demons but Jimmy still can’t quite link arms with his own, though clearly these decades on he is closer. The specter of cocaine on the brain is one thing. A terrible thing to behold even in someone you ostensibly love. Some people can stare it down… Bruce clearly couldn’t and the reader can only speculate why this is so. But it in Jimmy’s and so many cases, addiction is only the echo of a troubled soul — in Jimmy it is the lost boy — who lived forward in the shell of Jimmy the suburban man. Clearly ending the madness of drink and drugs just started the long journey home for the lost boy. Perhaps passing the whiff of Bruce’s memory as it passed in the cool morning dew gets Jimmy closer.

I like this character development. Please keep Jimmy vital so we can see how it plays out.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:30:10 +0000

Out of touch indeed. He went through life one day at a time until he realized he was heavily laden and needed rest. Very real and disturbing. Or is it just my mortality showing?

By: Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:57:42 +0000

Stunning! – both the photo and the response. Great to read this chapter in Jimmy’s life. I literally gasped at the use of the end phrase “heavy laden” – perfect for the story inspired by the photo. Thank you both for the rich pairing.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:54:16 +0000

A great tale on what brings us close and what takes us away from friends, lovers, God, and ourselves.

By: daniel shulman

daniel shulman — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:44:59 +0000

A welcome and highly readable chronicle of the long, strange trip of Jimmy O’Hara, which I have greatly enjoyed over the years. An inspiring epic of survival, not quite enough to light the spark of faith, but enough to demonstrate the miracle of cosmic randomness.

By: daniel shulman

daniel shulman — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 14:28:18 +0000

A fine summing-up of the Jimmy chronicles.