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Opus Vida – An Individual Life


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SEPTEMBER 12, 1975 - KEY WEST CITIZEN

Motorcycle Rider Hurt in Collision

An accident Friday afternoon on North Roosevelt Boulevard resulted in injuiries to Thomas E. Barrie of NAS, according to the Key West Police Department. Police report that the accident occurred on the boulevard at the entrance to the Boulevard Bank parking lot when a car driven by James Harvell Jackmond of 2915 Seidenberg Ave. trurned in front of the motorcycle which Barrie was riding. Barrie was thrown over the back of Jackmond's Volkswagen [bus] when the vehicles collided. Police said Jackmond was making a left turn into the bank parking lot and Barrie was heading east on the boulevard when the accident occurred. Barrie is listed in satisfactory condition as the U.S. Naval Hospital, according to police. Jackmond was cited for failure to yield the right of way.   


Welcome to My Life – 71 Years and Counting

An individual is born, lives a life accumulating things, ideas, experiences, and then dies. Where go the artefacts generated through that life? Family is first on the scene, going through the remains, but family have only so much space so the pickings are small. The individual's life is forgotten except for photos kept and reminiscences among themselves. How many generations of photos are kept? How many stories remain? The experiences and ideas. Who gets my stuff when I'm gone? Who really cares? My guitars, songs, writings, stories, essays, drawings – the stuff of my life – furniture I've made, wood that I've worked, things fabricated.

We chronicle the lives of "important" figures throughout history. Very few of us warrant a gander: the hopes, loves, dreams, ideas of the rest of us. What's your story? What's your song? What have you done? We can be Tom Hanks when he made fire in "Castaway" - "look what I have done!" Lest we forget ourselves, let us say "look what we have done!

– Thom and Willy