Jay Salmon, RIP

[randy_byers]

I'm trying to digest the news that my friend Jay died suddenly today, apparently of a heart condition that he'd never told me about. He was a good friend for close to thirty years, and a next-door neighbor for many of those years. He was just here on Sunday to watch the football game with me, sitting on the couch, drinking a beer, shooting the breeze. It is completely unfathomable to me at the moment that he is gone. None of it makes any sense.

Comments

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Sympathy!

What a shock. What an utter shock.

[croneitude.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry Randy. Big hugs and love to you.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear this.

[spikeiowa.livejournal.com]

Oh Kid. I'm so sorry!

[jophan.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry to hear that. My condolences!

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

((hugs)).

[cpt-buggernuts.livejournal.com]

Christ. I'm sorry to hear that.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Randy, I'm so sorry and so surprised.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

No it doesn't. Im sorry.

All I can say is my neice,s baby was born today. It goes round.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

My condolences.

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

Very sorry for your loss.

[dalmeny]

Very sorry that you have so suddenly lost a good friend.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Wow! Very sorry to hear this, a total shock. I started to write, "My heart is with you, and Elonna, and Sophia, and the families," and this is true, but I also wonder: is my own heart even with me? Was Jay's with him? Are we always already gone in an instant, and do we always nevertheless remain? He has turned a corner that is not in our world, and he cannot be followed even as we are destined to follow him.