Larry Timmons has died.

Submitted by PriceRip on Fri, 04/29/2016 - 2:20pm

          A few minutes ago my wife told me Larry was killed: This happened April 5 and because I ignore local "news" this is the first I have heard.

          Authorities say a man riding a lawn mower has died after it was hit by a truck on U.S. Highway 30.

The duck and cover story.

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          This is the third time during the past few years in which friends of mine have been killed this way. The previous two were riding bicycles. No one around here really cared very much because people driving cars are more important than people that tend to not drive cars.

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Larry Timmons a truly incredible human being. Gone but never forgotten.

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Submitted by Lookout on Fri, 04/29/2016 - 2:29pm
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Here's one for your buddy. I have played this one at my friends' funerals.

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Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Fri, 04/29/2016 - 2:42pm
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Submitted by PriceRip on Fri, 04/29/2016 - 4:05pm
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          Thanks for the suggestion. Please let me know if the comment I set in the Resilience Resource Library is wanting in any way. Thanks for setting this up. A librarian's work is never done.

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Submitted by PriceRip on Fri, 04/29/2016 - 3:52pm
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          Richard Luehrs (Yet another person I should write about.) introduced me to Larry Timmons twenty-plus years ago. If I remember correctly Larry was covered in sawdust and wore grease stained clothing. With that smile he reminded me of the pictures of my dad at his age. Larry did odd jobs for me and I paid him what seemed a reasonable amount, but Larry lived by a different set of rules. What he did not need he gave away to those with a greater need.
          He seemed to never let the world get him down. He would collect junk until he had enough parts to assemble a lawnmower, then sell it for very little to someone that really needed it.
          I think he may be the only person I have ever known who truly embodied the notion of "live simply so that others may simply live."

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Submitted by Alison Wunderland on Fri, 04/29/2016 - 4:38pm
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And my condolences to you, Robert.

Here's the most fitting remembrance I know for someone good. Your friend sounds like just that sort of person.

They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do the thing, they most do show,
Who moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow:
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces,
And husband nature's riches from expense,
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others, but stewards of their excellence:

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to it self, it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds,
Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds.

#94 - W.S.

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Submitted by PriceRip on Fri, 04/29/2016 - 6:52pm
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Submitted by MsGrin on Fri, 04/29/2016 - 5:12pm
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Sorry for your loss.
Sorry for the world's loss.
Sorry so many of us are not able to focus on what is in front of us.

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Submitted by PriceRip on Fri, 04/29/2016 - 6:52pm
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Submitted by Damnit Janet on Fri, 04/29/2016 - 11:56pm
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I understand, me and my family of 4 have lost 10 dear ones in just 8 years. Any time our home phone rings, my daughter looks fretful.

I know this may not mean much coming from a perfect stranger, but thank you for sharing your friend with us. it would have been a greater loss not to even have known how much he meant to others.

take care

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Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 10:07am
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          As I have often (too often) counseled my students: Sharing loss can help you to live with the loss. It never goes away, it becomes part of you.
          Perhaps that sounds trite to some but the macho-tough-it-out approach is so very destructive. So, thanks for sharing.

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